Civil Rights

The use of peaceful means, not force, to bring about political or social change

• nonviolet
• nonviolin
• nonviolence
• nonviola

Bringing separate groups together

• integration
• Looking at this will slow you down
• discrimination
• segregation

People who protest to call attention to a cause, like civil rights

• prejudice
• activist
• optimist
• don't read this, this is just a distraction

Keeping things or people separate 

• integration
• discrimination
• DISTRACTION!
• segregation

Was originally a theater character, but became a term that described things related to African Americans

• Jim Sparrow
• Jack Sparrow
• Jack Crow
• Jim Crow

Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus.

• Mary Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

• Cesar Chavez

• Rosa Parks

Desegregated all public schools. This was a major court case that involved Linda Brown attending an all-black school when an all-white school was closer to her home.

• Brown vs. the Board of Education

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Jim Crow Laws

When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• March on Washington

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• 15th Amendment

Separation of two or more races based on skin color

• segregation

• racism

• oppression

• facism

Enforced racial segregation in the South; all were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period.

• 13th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964