Civil Rights Vocab
The enforced separation of racial groups in schools, housing, and public places.
Segregation
A protest against bus segregation sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A Protest in which people refuse to use or buy something to bring about change.
Boycott
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Ended slavery
13th Amendment
The process of ending racial segregation and bringing different races together.
Integration
1963 rally where Dr. King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
March on Washington
State and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
President of the United States of America during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Gave the right to vote to Black-American men
15th Amendment
The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
Civil Rights
Civil rights activists who rode buses through the South to challenge segregation.
Freedom Riders
A form of nonviolent protest where people occupy a space and refuse to leave.
Sit-in
The first battle of the Civil War took place here.
Fort Sumter
Grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, ensures equal protection under the law
14th Amendment
Unfair treatment of people based on race, gender, religion, or other characteristics.
Discrimination
Nine African American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
Little Rock Nine
1954 Supreme Court decision declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
This event led to the Southern states seceding from the Union.
The election of Abraham Lincoln.
Led the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A strategy of protest that does not involve physical force, inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolence
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a group that fought for civil rights.
NAACP
A public demonstration of strong objection to policies or events.
Protest
Declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states still in rebellion were free.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment