Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy that brings about change.
Advocacy
An example of nonviolent protest where people refuse to leave a restaurant or other establishment until their demands are met.
Sit-ins
the practice of achieving goals such as social change through protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other methods while being nonviolent.
Non-Violent Resistance
To refuse to buy something or to take part in something as a way of protesting.
Boycott
the practice of uniting people from different races in an attempt to give people equal rights.
Integration
The separation, either by law or by action, of people of different races in all manner of daily activities, such as education, housing, and the use of public facilities.
Segregation
A violation of the basic principles or laws set forth in the Constitution of the United States.
Unconstitutional
Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States to challenge racial segregation.
Freedom Riders
Unfairness or undeserved outcomes that lack justice.
Injustice
The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
Equality