Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary Study Guide

The systematic practice of discriminating against and segregation Black people, especially as practiced in the American South from the end of Reconstruction to the mid-20th century.

• Desegregate

• Jim Crow Laws

• Integration

• NAACP

An organization that had begun in 1909 and was one of the main organizations in the 1940s working to overturn segregation laws; works through court to fight in equality

• Boycott

• Civil Rights

• KKK

• NAACP

Free of any law or practice requiring isolation of a race

• Desegregate

• Civil Rights

• SCLC

• Segregation

The act of treating some people differently from others on a basis other than individual merit

• Injustice

• Oppression

• Discrimination

• Picket

The act of bringing about equal membership in society

• Integration

• White Citizens Council

• Unconstitutional

• Desegregate

A secret society begun after the Civil War that advocates white supremacy; a hate group

• Boycott

• NAACP

• Integration

• KKK

The rights of personal liberty as guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution

• Injustice

• Civil Rights

• Oppression

• Jim Crow Laws

The act of refusing to deal with someone to show disapproval

• Boycott

• Civil Rights

• KKK

• SCLC

To walk or stand in from of; to protest

• Segregation

• Injustice

• White Citizens Council

• Picket

The absence of justice; violation of the rights of another

• Injustice

• Picket

• Discrimination

• Jim Crow Laws