Civil Rights Vocabulary

to refuse to buy, use, or participate in (something) as a way of protesting : to stop using the goods or services of (a company, country, etc.) until changes are made.

• segregation

• boycott

• race

separating people into groups based on race (or skin color). For example black children could not go to school with white children.

• segregation

• boycott

• traumatic

everyone has the same rights or opportunities.

• Jim crow laws

• race

• equality

Judging someone before you even meet them based on how they look.

• prejudice (pre judge)

• segregation

• boycott

Something terrible that has long lasting effects

• racist

• power

• traumatic

What is race as it refers to the Civil Rights movement?

• a group of humans based on physical appearance

• judging someone by what they look like

• separating people based on their beliefs

something that you have or are allowed to do because of a law.

• equality

• rights

• rule

What is a movement as it relates to the Civil Rights Movement?

• going out to the streets to protest.

• separating people based on their skin color

• a group of many people who agree and want the same thing and actively work or move toward that same goal.

When you do this, you say that you think something is wrong or you do something to show that you disagree with something.

• protest

• yell

• equality

Black and white children going to separate schools is an example of what.

• boycott

• segregation

• rights