Civil Rights Vocabulary

The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.

• Equality

• Civil Rights

• Segregation

• Discrimination

The state of being equal - especially in status, rights, and opportunities

• Equality

• Segregation

• Discrimination

• Persecution

The action or state of separating someone or something apart from others.

• Persecution

• Direct Action

• Segregation

• Civil Rights

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

• Direct Action

• Equality

• Discrimination

• Persecution

Hostility and ill-treatment, especially on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation or political beliefs.

• Boycott

• Lynching

• Desegregation

• Persecution

The use of strikes, demonstrations, or other public forms of protest rather than negotiation to achieve one's demands.

• Direct Action

• Boycott

• Desegregation

• Lynchin

The act of withdrawing from a commercial or social relation with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

• Lynching

• Desegregation

• Boycott

• Discrimination

To end a policy of racial segregation (separation).

• Desegregation

• Boycott

• Civil Rights

• Direct Action

The killing of someone, usually by a mob, especially by hanging,, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

• Lynching

• Discrimination

• Retaliation

• Sit-In

When a group of people occupy a place as a form of protest.

• Civil Disobedience

• Sit-In

• Lynching

• Retaliation