Civil Rights Vocabulary

Which term means keeping particular groups apart? It is often used specifically to mean separating people by race, like when some places had separate drinking fountains and schools for Black and white people.

• Integration

• Segregation

• Boycott

• Nonviolent Resistance

Which term describes very difficult tests given to voters in many areas?

• Literacy Tests

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Disobedience

• Nonviolent Resistance

Which term describes the process of ending segregation? It's when laws and rules are changed to allow people of all races to be treated equally.

• Segregation

• Integration

• Desegregation

• Nonviolent Resistance

Which term describes laws that enforced segregation and discrimination against Black people in the Southern United States? They made it so Black people had to use separate facilities and couldn't do things that white people could do.

• Nonviolent Resistance

• Sit-ins

• Jim Crow Laws

• NAACP

Which term describes when people decide not to buy or use something as a way of protesting or showing they don't agree with it? For example, people might stop buying a certain product to try to pressure a company into changing its behavior.

• Integration

• Boycott

• Nonviolent Resistance

• Jim Crow Laws

What do we call the rights that every person should have, like the right to vote, go to school, marry, and be treated fairly?

• Civil Rights

• Inalienable Rights

• Freedom Rights

• Basic Rights

Which term describes a peaceful protest where people sit down in a place, like a restaurant, and refuse to leave in order to show they disagree with unfair rules?

• Sit-ins

• Nonviolent Resistance

• Jim Crow Laws

• Boycott

Which of the following is a way of peacefully breaking a law to show that it's unfair.? People do this to draw attention to an issue and encourage change.

• Civil Disobedience

• Civil Rights

• Freedom Riders

• Boycotts

What is the name of the organization that fights for the rights of Black people and others of racial and ethnic minorities and works to end racial discrimination?

• Freedom Riders

• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

• Jim Crow

• Nonviolent Resistance

What do we call the people who rode buses through the South to protest the fact that desegregation laws were not being enforced on buses and in other areas?

• Freedom Riders

• Sit-ins

• Jim Crow Laws

• Segregationists