SS9 Civil Rights Vocabulary

What is the term for a call by some civil rights activists for African Americans to have economic/political power NOT nonviolent protest?

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Black Power

• nonviolent resistance

• sit-in

Fill in the blank: ________ is a peaceful protest or noncooperation with authorities to achieve social/political goals.

• A) Brown v. Board of Education

• B) Black Power

• C) nonviolent resistance

• D) sit-in

What is the form of peaceful protest in which people occupied seats in a segregated facility?

• A) Brown v. Board of Education

• B) Black Power

• C) nonviolent resistance

• D) sit-in

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation in public schools was unconstitutional is known as ________.

• A) Brown v. Board of Education

• B) Black Power

• C) nonviolent resistance

• D) sit-in

What term describes the harsh, cruel, or violent treatment of another person?

• brutality

• conventional

• integration

• militant

What term describes being willing to use strong, extreme, and sometimes violent methods to achieve something?

• brutality

• conventional

• integration

• militant

What is the blending of people of all races as equals, the opposite of segregation?

• brutality

• conventional

• integration

• militant

Fill in the blank: The term that means 'usual or traditional; accepted by most people' is ________.

• brutality

• conventional

• integration

• militant

What word means 'leaving no question as to meaning or intent'?

• A) obstruct

• B) rigid

• C) isolated

• D) explicitly

What word means 'separated or set apart from other people or things'?

• obstruct

• rigid

• isolated

• explicitly