Civil Rights Vocabulary Set A
A policy of keeping people of different races separate.
Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to go to jail.
What is Civil Disobedience?
Slavery ended in the United States officially.
What is 1865?
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Believed we should accepted segregation and make the best of it.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
showing disapproval or resistance in a way that does not include violence.
What is non-violent protest?
Laws that supported segregation and took away African Americans’ right to vote.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Songs that express feelings, such as sadness, joy, and determination.
What are freedom songs?
This President signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Widespread, organized protests in the 1950s and 1960s against the unfair treatment of African Americans and other minorities.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
A belief that people of one race are superior to the people of another.
What is racism?
This system kept them in a lower social status, or rank, than white people.
What is segregation?
The belief that white people are superior than black people.
What is white supremacy?
The year the U.S. government took the troops out of the South after Reconstruction.
What is 1877?
Treating one group of people unfairly on the basis of race, gender or other characteristic.
What is discrimination?
The protections and privileges guaranteed by law to citizens of a country.
What is Civil Rights?
The year women won the right to vote.
What is 1920?
A terrorist group that would illegally harm black people, often using lynching.
Who is Ku Klux Klan?
Bringing people of different groups together in society or in an organization.
What is integration?
Dislike of or bias against certain people based on race, gender, or other characteristic.
What is prejudice?
In inspiration for Dr. MLK, and also believed in non-violent protest. He led a non-violent movement that freed India from British rule in 1947.
Who is Mohandas K. Gandhi?
Gave African Americans the right to be in Public Places.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
Who is Homer Plessy?