Vocabulary
This is when people take action to create change in their community or the world.
What is Activism?
This part of a newspaper article tells you what the story is mostly about in just a few words.
What is a headline?
This activist refused to give up her bus seat, helping spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This young environmental activist from Sweden is known for speaking out about climate change worldwide.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This activist fought for girls’ education and survived being attacked by the Taliban.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This is when people refuse to buy a product or use a service to pressure a company or government to change.
What is a Boycott?
This paragraph comes at the beginning of an article and answers who, what, when, where, and why.
What is the lead (or lede) paragraph?
This group of four Black college students staged a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960 to protest segregation.
Who are Greensboro Four?
This South African leader fought against apartheid and later became president.
This leader promoted nonviolent protest and delivered the famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This means accepting and respecting people who are different from you.
What is Tolerance?
This type of source comes from someone who directly experienced the event being reported.
What is a primary source?
This 6-year-old girl became the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South in 1960.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
This activist co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez and fought for labor rights.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
This civil rights activist was assassinated in Mississippi after fighting for voting rights.
Who is Medgar Evers?
This is when people of different races or groups are brought together in the same schools, neighborhoods, or spaces.
What is integration?
This short piece of text explains what is happening in a photo and gives it context.
What is a caption?
This young member of the Little Rock Nine helped integrate Central High School in Arkansas.
Who is Elizabeth Eckford?
This was the 1955–1956 protest where African Americans refused to ride city buses to fight segregation.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
This woman was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress and ran for president in 1972.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This is a negative opinion about someone or a group without knowing all the facts.
What is Prejudice?
This line in a newspaper article tells you who wrote the story.
What is a byline?
This activist founded the Highlander Folk School, which trained civil rights leaders.
Who is Myles Horton?
This organization helped argue the Brown v. Board case on behalf of African American students and Medgar Evers was also a member of the organization.
What is the NAACP?
This leader organized farmworkers and used boycotts to fight for better working conditions.
Who is Cesar Chavez?