Civil Rights Vocabulary - US History SWHS

To strike back at someone.

• Retaliate

• Integrate

• Segregate

• Rationing

To refuse to use a company or service in protest.

• Sit-in

• Blacklist

• Boycott

• Picket

Set free formerly enslaved people, famously in a proclamation by President Lincoln in 1863.

• Desegregation

• Emancipation

• Reconstruction

• Segregation

Unwritten rules of keeping races separate in the Jim Crow Era South.

• Enslavement

• Reconstruction

• Integration

• Segregation

Something morally right, fair, or deserved.

• Justified

• Jealous

• Judicious

• Jeopardy

Treating people badly based on their race, class, or category.

• Harassment

• Lynching

• Protesting

• Discrimination

Treating people badly with intimidation, bothering, or bullying.

• Violence

• Harassment

• Enslavement

• Discrimination

Intentionally acting against orders, daring resistance.

• Defiance

• Nonviolence

• Self-defense

• Compliance

Up to the decision of the judge, uncertain or unwritten.

• Abolition

• Armistice

• Arbitrary

• Amendment

A movement that spreads from the ground up, started by individual members.

• Nonviolent

• Grassroots

• Radical

• Resistance