Civil Rights Vocabulary

a method of achieving social or political change by refusing to use physical violence

• Non-Violent resistance

• sit-in

• desegregation

The intermixing of people or groups previously segregated

• desegregation

• segregation

• integration

To deprive or deny positive human qualities

• grassroots

• dehumanize

• freedom rides

a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met

• desegregation

• integration

• sit-in

the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest

• civil disobedience

• freedom rides

• integration

the ending of a policy of racial segregation

• integration

• desegregation

• sit-in

the most basic level of an activity or organization

Also known as the foundation of a group

• non-violent resistance

• grassroots

• integration

nonviolent political protests, organized by civil rights activists in 1961, where black and white individuals rode buses together through the segregated South

• non-violent resistance

• sit-in

• Freedom rides