Civil Rights Vocabulary

separation of people of different races

• segregation

• bus boycott

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• seperation

rights that are guaranteed to all citizens by the constitution

• citizen rights

• voting rights

• American rights

• civil rights

Lawyer and civil rights activist that won Brown vs. BOE case

• Marting Luther

• John F. Kennedy

• Thurgood Marshall

• Lyndon Johnson

Protest campaign against racial segregation on the public transit system

• New York Bus Boycott

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Cordele Bus Boycott

• Washington Bus Boycott

Means to oppose something without using violence

• good person

• aggressive

• passive resistance

• civil rights

Led the civil rights movement and believed in peaceful protests

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Robert Kennedy

• Martin Luther King Jr.

Made racial discrimination in voting illegal

• Boycott Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Civil Rights Act

• No School Act

civil rights leader arrested for not giving up her seat to a white woman

• Rosa Parks

• Rosie the Riveter

• Hillary Clinton

• Rosa Clinton

Resulted in a protest in which 250,000 people attended. Where MLK Jr. gave his famous speech.

• March on Watermelon Parade

• March on New York

• March on Washington

• March on Las Vegas

Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

• Trump vs. BOE

• Brown vs. BOE

• Ricardo vs. BOE

• Luther vs BOE