Civil Rights Vocabulary

What is the act of abolishing slavery?

• abolition

• discrimination

• equality

• racism

What is the practice that uses action to support or oppose a controversial issue?

• activism

• Jim Crow laws

• NAACP

• Supreme Court

What are the rights that every person should have no matter their gender, race or religion?

• Civil Rights

• abolition

• Racism

• Underground Railroad

What is unfairly treating a person or group of people differently?

• discrimination

• NAACP

• Supreme Court

• abolition

What is everybody having the same rights and being treated the same?

• equality

• discrimination

• activism

• Underground Railroad

What are laws that discriminate against people of color?

• Jim Crow

• NAACP

• Supreme Court

• abolition

What is the Civil Rights organization for people of color in the U.S.?

• NAACP

• segregation

• civil rights

• Underground Railroad

What is the poor treatment of or violence against people based on their race?

• racism

• Supreme Court

• abolition

• civil rights

What is the practice of keeping people of different races, religions, gender and other differences separate from each other?

• segregation

• Supreme Court

• abolition

• NAACP

What is the highest court of law in the U.S. located in Washington, D.C.?

• Supreme Court

• NAACP

• civil rights

• Underground Railroad