Common Lit Women in the Civil Rights Movement

to refuse to having dealings with a person or business as a protest

• segregation

• grassroots

• hierarchy

• boycott

ordinary people in a society or an organization, rather than the leaders

• groundwork

• seamstress

• grassroots

• oppressed

a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

• diminished

• hierarchy

• oppressed

• grassroots

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

• segregation

• boycott

• hierarchy

• oppressed

a woman who sews for a living

being treated unfairly or cruelly, especially by people in power, and not having the freedom or rights you should have

made smaller or less important

the basic work or preparation that makes something possible.

groundwork

• a woman who sews for a living

• being treated unfairly or cruelly, especially by people in power, and not having the freedom or rights you should have

• made smaller or less important

• the basic work or preparation that makes something possible.

diminished

• being treated unfairly or cruelly, especially by people in power, and not having the freedom or rights you should have

• Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

• made smaller or less important

• a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.