Magazine 35: Civil Rights Vocabulary Quiz

Name:

The protections and privileges guaranteed by law to citizens of a country.

• Civil Rights
• Jim Crow Laws
• Integration

A belief that people of one race are superior to the people of another.

• Segregation
• Integration
• Racism

Bus trip taken by black and white volunteers to test a desegregation law.

• Brown V. Board of Education
• Civil Rights Movement
• Freedom Ride

Laws that supported segregation and took away African Americans’ right to vote.

• Nonviolent Protests
• Jim Crow Laws
• Civil Disobedience

A policy of keeping people of different races separate.

• Integration
• Desegregation
• Segregation

Dislike of certain people based on race, gender, or other characteristics.

• Racism
• Prejudice
• Nonviolent Protests

Showing disapproval or resistance in a way that does not include violence.

• Nonviolent Protests
• Affirmative Action
• Civil Disobedience

Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to go to jail.

• Nonviolent Protests
• Civil Rights
• Civil Disobedience

Treating one group of people unfairly on the basis of race, gender, or some other factor.

• Discrimination
• Desegregation
• Segregation