Civil Rights Vocab

combining separate things or groups into a unified group.

• integration

• segregation

• martyr

• activism

ordinary people regarded as the main body of an organization's membership.

• grassroots

• activism

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• boycott

led the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, where she mentored and supported the Little Rock Nine.

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Daisy Bates

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

played a large part in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and challenged the all-white Mississippi delegation in 1964.

• Fannie Lou Hamer

• Daisy Bates

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Rosa Parks

an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activists was a prominent figure during the Civil Rights Movement.

• Bayard Rustin

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Thurgood Marshall

argued the Brown vs. Board of Education Case as well as served on the U.S. Supreme Court

• Bayard Rustin

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Malcolm X

• Thurgood Marshall

someone who is killed or ensures great suffering for their beliefs

• martyr

• oppression

• activism

• social justice

a form of nonviolent protest where individuals intentionally break a law or government rule to express their disapproval of a specific policy or law, often with the goal of achieving political or social change.

• civil disobedience

• boycott

• oppression

• empowerment

prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control.

• civil disobedience

• boycott

• oppression

• empowerment

policies designed to actively increase opportunities for historically underrepresented groups, like women and minorities, in areas like education, employment, and government contracts

• civil disobedience

• boycott

• affirmative action

• empowerment