Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary

A BELIEF that people of one race is BETTER than people of another

• prejudice

• segregation

• racism

• discrimination

Keeping people of different races SEPARATE

• segregation

• desegregation

• integration

• racism

Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to go to jail.

• desegregation

• civil disobedience

• civil rights movement

• nonviolent protest

Unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people

• prejudice

• discrimination

• prejudice

• racism

Ending the policy of keeping people of different races separate.

• desegregation

• segregation

• integration

• Brown v. Board of Education

To peacefully protest by refusing to leave a place.

• March

• Riot

• Sit-In

• Dance off

An unfair feeling of dislike for a person or group because of race, sex, religion, etc.

• Discrimination

• Prejudice

• Civil Disobedience

• Segregation

Not allowed by (or against) the constitution of a country

• Unconstitutional

• Constitutional

• Desegregation

• Integration

A situation in which a large group of people behave in a violent and uncontrolled way

• Riot

• Boycott

• Sit-Ins

• Marches

The rights that every person should have regardless of his or her sex, race, or religion

• Civil Disobedience

• Civil Rights

• Unconstitutional

• Prejudice