Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary

To peacefully protest by refusing to leave a place.

• March

• Riot

• Sit-In

• Dance off

What is the poor treatment of or violence against people based on their race?

• racism

• Supreme Court

• abolition

• civil rights

What is the practice of keeping people of different races, religions, gender and other differences separate from each other?

• segregation

• Supreme Court

• abolition

• NAACP

What is the highest court of law in the U.S. located in Washington, D.C.?

• Supreme Court

• NAACP

• civil rights

• Underground Railroad

civil rights are

• the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

• the refusal to follow certain laws as a peaceful form of protest

• the refusal to follow certain laws as a peaceful form of protest

• the refusal to follow certain laws as a peaceful form of protest

civil disobedience means

• a part of the law that allowed racial segregation

• the refusal to follow certain laws as a peaceful form of protest

• the unjust or harmful treatment of different groups of people, especially on the grounds of race

• not in agreement with the U.S. Constitution

Ending the policy of keeping people of different races separate.

• desegregation

• segregation

• integration

• Brown v. Board of Education

These people are involved in a __________ .

• Sit in

• Freedom Ride

• Boycott

to discharge completely (as from an accusation or obligation)

• acquit

• scan

• strife

• topple

What does 'Appeal' mean?

• To ask for a lower sentence

• To request a new judge

• Apply to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court

• To plead guilty to a crime