Black History Vocabulary

What are civil rights?

• The wrong things people do to each other

• The right answers on a test

• The laws that say we are all free and all have privileges

What is Equality?

• It is a math problem

• Everyone is equal

• Some people are better than other people

When we are able to be free and make our own choices we have...

• Freedom

• Racism

• Slavery

What is Segregation?

• Separating people because of the colour of their skin or their culture

• It is a science problem

• Someone who speaks up for a cause

During __________________ people owned other people called slaves.

• Recess

• Slavery

• Segregation

Prejudice means

• having an opinion about someone before you really know them

• drinking juice

• treating someone badly

Discrimination means

• treating someone differently because you think you are better than them

• definition

• believing everyone is the same

Racism is when

• you are black

• you believe you are better than someone else because of the colour of your skin

• you believe everyone is an activist

courage means

• unsure what to do in a situation

• the ability to do something scary or dangerous

• the feeling of dread

• a company that produces buses

integrate means

• come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events

• to help people in minority groups have equal access to spaces and opportunities as everyone else; to desegregate

• the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

• an institution for educating children