Civil Rights Vocabulary

Black people refused to ride buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating on public buses.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Sit-Ins

• Civil Disobedience

Civil rights leader, promoted non-violence, assassinated in 1968.

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F. Kennedy

• Meger Evers

• Langston Hughes

Bans discrimination against African-Americans, in employment voting and in public.

• 1964 Civil Rights Act

• Jim Crow

• NAACP

• Equal Rights Amendment

Protesting by sitting down, usually at a store, to interfere with business.

• Sit-Ins

• Boycott

• Feminism

• Racism

U.S. President from 1961-1963, assassinated in Dallas, TX.

• John F. Kennedy

• Medgar Evers

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Malcolm X

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• NAACP

• SNCC

• Black Power

• Ku Klux Klan

Separation of people by race

• Segregation

• Jim Crow

• Poverty Line

• Feminism

Local laws enforcing segregation in the South.

• Jim Crow

• Civil Disobedience

• Poll Tax

• Racism

Refuse to use or buy

• boycott

• feminism

• racism

• sit-ins

Refusing to follow laws, that are considered unjust

• Civil Disobedience

• Racism

• Segregation

• Sit-ins