Vocabulary
This word describes the separation of people based on race in schools, buses, and public places.
What is segregation?
This civil rights leader promoted nonviolence and helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This group, founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, promoted Black empowerment and community programs.
What is the Black Panther Party?
These protests began when four students sat at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What are the Greensboro sit-ins?
One major goal of the Civil Rights Movement was ending this system of racial separation.
What is segregation?
This term refers to laws that enforced racial segregation in the American South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This leader promoted Black pride, self-determination, and the right to self-defense.
Who is Malcolm X?
This organization led by Martin Luther King Jr. organized nonviolent protests and marches.
What is the SCLC?
These activists rode buses through the South to challenge segregated bus terminals.
What were the Freedom Rides?
Many civil rights activists fought to protect this important democratic right.
What are voting rights?
This protest strategy involves refusing to buy goods or services to challenge injustice.
What is a boycott?
This philosophy argues that injustice should be challenged through peaceful protest and moral resistance.
What is nonviolent resistance?
This student-led organization helped organize sit-ins and voter registration drives.
What is SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)?
This protest involved thousands of students marching in Birmingham to challenge segregation.
What was the Children’s Crusade?
Civil rights activists often faced this from segregationists during protests.
What is violence?
This form of protest involves peacefully breaking an unjust law to expose injustice.
What is civil disobedience?
This famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr. described his vision for racial equality in America.
What is the “I Have a Dream” speech?
This organization helped organize the Freedom Rides to challenge segregated bus travel.
What is CORE?
This boycott began after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
One major goal of the Civil Rights Movement was achieving this principle under the law.
What is equality?
This word describes when people are denied the right to vote or participate in government.
What does disenfranchised mean?
This leader from India inspired the philosophy of nonviolent resistance used by MLK.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This organization often challenged segregation through court cases and legal strategies, including the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which helped end school segregation.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
In 1965, civil rights marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama were violently attacked by state troopers. Images of this event shocked the nation and helped build support for the Voting Rights Act.
What was Bloody Sunday?
Images of violence against peaceful protesters were often shown on television and in newspapers, which increased public support for civil rights laws. This shows that activists understood the power of this.
What is public awareness (or media attention)?