Civil Rights Vocab

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a...

•  leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s

• lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court;

Civil Rights are...

• the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality; to be free from unequal treatment based on certain characteristics (race, gender, disability, religion, etc.)

• the rights of people looking to find creative work in a new field

• the refusal to ride the buses in Montgomery, Alabama until they were desegregated;

1. constitutional rights are...

• 1. a constitutional amendment intended to prohibit discrimination against women; was a goal of the woman’s rights movement, but was never ratified (approved)

• 1. the rights guaranteed to all citizens and provided by the Constitution of the United States

• 1.   woman’s rights organization dedicated to fighting sexism

1. Civil Rights Act of 1964

• 1.  members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who rode buses from town to town, trying to integrate bus terminals

• 1. legislation (law) outlawing segregation in public places and giving federal government new powers to fight discrimination

• 1.  a nonviolent way to change unjust laws

Civil disobedience is...

• 1.  a nonviolent way to change unjust laws

• a person involved in a cause like civil rights or woman’s rights

• the proposed 27th constitutional amendment.

activist is...

• someone who chooses not to get involved in political issues

• a person who actively engages in academic work

• person who is very active and athletic

• a person involved in a cause like civil rights or woman’s rights

protest: 

• to express strong objection or disapproval

• to express strong supporting beliefs or approval

• to express no real strong objection and stay neutral

Malcolm X:

• Civil Rights activist; believed in Black Nationalism, the idea that for freedom and justice, blacks need their own land & society;

• encouraged non-violence, but began to see need for aggression before the was assassinated in April 1965.

• A law forbidding discrimination

1. Eleanor Roosevelt:

• 1. a woman fighting against equal rights for all Americans.

• 1. a woman dedicated to equal rights for all. Fought for women’s and African American’s rights, as well as laws to reform labor

• 1. she fought for men’s and Asian American’s rights

1. NAACP stands for: 

• 1. (Nation Association for the Acquired concepts)

• 1. (Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People):

• 1. (Nation Association for the Advancement of Coca-Cola):

• 1. (National Assessment for the Advancement of Children):