Civils Rights Vocabulary Practice

Laws in the South that legalized segregation.

• Jim Crow Laws

• 14th Amendment

• Sit-In

• Rosa Parks

Declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States were entitled to equal rights regardless of their race.

• Boycott

• Little Rock Nine

• 14th Amendment

• Jim Crow Laws

The court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause; the "separate but equal" doctrine had no place.

• Boycott

• Brown v. Board of Education Decision

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Sit-In

Separated people of different races as a form of discrimination.

• Civil Rights Bill

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

• Brown v. Board of Education Decision

• Segregation

Nine African American students who first integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.

• Sit-In

• Little Rock Nine

• Boycott

• Civil Rights Bill

Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. After she was jailed, the Montgomery bus boycott was organized.

• Rosa Parks

• Thurgood Marshall

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Civil rights leader; he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing non-violent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Non-violent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Bill

• Sit-In

• 24th Amendment

This amendment prohibits Congress and states from using any method to keep someone from voting based on ethnicity.

• 24th Amendment

• Civil Rights Bill

• Brown v. Board of Education Decision

• 14th Amendment

American civil rights lawyer, first black justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

• Rosa Parks

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• Thurgood Marshall

• Lyndon B. Johnson