Civil Rights Vocabulary

Dehumanization

• to refuse to participate in something as a way to protest

• to take away human qualities and rights

• to eliminate or get rid of

• to separate one racial group from another

Civil Disobedience

• to ask for a decision made by the court to be changed

• to peacefully refuse to go against laws

• to come together again in forgiveness

• to feel lower or less important than someone else

Abolish

• to treat a person unfairly based on opinions that are held without evidence

• to eliminate or get rid of

• to show disagreement with something

• to refuse to participate in something

Prejudice

• to take away human qualities and rights

• to judge someone or something before you know about them

• to refuse to obey

• to end the separation of people based on race

Defiance

• to feel lower or less important than someone else

• to refuse to obey

• a system of beliefs or guiding principles

• a plan created in order to win

Reconciliation

• to separate people based on race

• to come together again in forgiveness

• to treat a person unfairly based on opinions that are held without evidence

• to show disagreement with something

Discrimination

• to ask for a decision made by the court to be changed

• to treat a person unfairly based on opinions that are held without evidence

• to come together again in forgiveness

• to take away human qualities and rights

Boycott

• a plan created in order to win

• to refuse to participate in something as a way to protest

• to eliminate or get rid of

• to separate one racial group from another

Appeal

• to feel less than or less important than someone else

• to ask for a decision made by the court to be changed

• to show disagreement with something

• to have a belief, good or bad, about a group of people

Desegregation

• to peacefully refuse to go against laws

• to end the separation of people based on race

• to judge someone or something before you know about them

• to come together again in forgiveness