MLK Vocabulary Quiz

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Rosa Parks

• American Civil Rights activist who lead the March on Washington

• American Civil Rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955

• American Civil Rights activist who was the only black girl who attended an all-white school.

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Segregation

• The act of showing disagreement of separating people of different races, sexes, religions, etc.

• The act of being mean to people because of different races, sexes, religions, etc.

• The act, process, or policy of separating people of different races, sexes, religions, etc.

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Protest

• To publicly show disagreement with something, usually in an organized group with other people.

• To lead others.

• To gain equality.

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Civil Rights Movement

• When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke his "I Have a Dream" speech.

• To fight for equal rights for everyone.

• African Americans' struggle to gain equity to white people in the 1950s and 1960s in the United States.

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Nonviolence

• To show disagreement in a violent way.

• The practice of refusing to use violence to achieve goals.

• The act of not doing something.

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Minister

• A religious leader who is trained to carry out or help with ceremonies and services.

• Someone who teaches about segregation.

• A famous person from the Civil Rights Movement.

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Boycott

• Helping someone out.

• Not doing something because you are lazy.

• The act of protesting by refusing to buy or use something

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civil rights

• Rules that everyone should live by.

• The rights that every citizen of a country or society has or should have.

• Beliefs that people have about being treated well.

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Equal

• Similar to

• something that is alike.

• The same as

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Dream

• Something you give someone.

• Something that you ask for for your birthday.

• An ambition or ideal.