Civil Rights Vocabulary

A time when African Americans gained equal rights under the law.

• civil rights movement

• boycott

• civil disobedience

Not being able to deny a person the right to vote.

• 15th ammendment

• 13th ammendment

The belief that one race is superior to another.

• boycott

• racism

• civil rights movement

Protesting by sitting down in a restricted area.

• segregation

• Jim Crow

• sit in

• integration

Unfair separation of one race.

• boycott

• segregation

• discimination

Unfair treatment based on prejudice.

• boycott

• segregation

• discrimination

Bringing together people of different races.

• segregation

• integration

• racism

To refuse to use or buy items in protest.

• segregation

• racism

• boycott

Laws written to separate blacks and whites in public areas.

• Jim Crow

• boycott

• segregation

Process by which the USA ended the system of separating races.

• desegreation

• racism

• civil rights movement