Civil Rights Vocabulary

What does the nonviolent mean?

• angry

• violent

• peaceful

• curious

What does Civil Rights Movement mean?

• struggle by African Americans in the mid 1950's and 1960's to achieve Civil Rights equal to those of whites

• movement of people through the Underground Railroad

• Dr. King's "I Had a Dream" speech

• struggle of immigrants to gain equal rights to natural born Americans

What does march mean?

• speech given to support equal rights

• separating people by races

• an organized procession of demonstrators who are supporting or protesting something, usually with signs or banners

• sit-ins to protest whites only restaurants

What does boycott mean?

• give approval of a product or service

• review a product or service

• start using a product or service

• stop using a product or service

What does segregation mean?

• equal to

• opposite

• separate

• less than

What does protest mean?

• discriminating someone based on their race

• statement or action expressing disapproval or objection of something

• separating people or things from others

• nonviolent

What does the word activist mean?

• person who gives speeches to large groups of people

• person who studies cultures and people

• person who researches historical events

• person who protests to call attention to a cause

What does the word discrimination mean?

• when one group knows more about the Civil Rights Movement than another group

• when one group has more experience with speeches, marches, and sit-ins than another group

• when one group is treated differently than another group

• when one group gives moving speeches about the need for Civil Rights for all

What does the word integration mean?

• bringing separate groups together

• treating separate groups differently

• making separate groups stay separate

• giving separate groups different opportunities

What does the word prejudice mean?

• being of more than one race

• separation of different races

• integration of different races

• intolerance of a person or group based on their race