Movements
A person who takes action to bring about social, political, or environmental change.
Activist
The belief that one race is superior to others, often leading to discrimination.
Racism
A large public gathering of people to support a cause or demand change.
Rally
A basic freedom that the law guarantees to protect people and treat them fairly.
Civil Rights
Someone who is extremely passionate about a belief or cause, sometimes to an unreasonable level.
Zealot
A written request signed by many people, asking authorities to take action or change a law.
Petition
The practice of separating people by race, especially in schools, housing, and public places.
Segregation
The act of refusing to buy, use, or participate in something as a form of protest.
Boycott
Famous Baptist minister who gave his life for racial equality.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Something that does not actually work but can make someone feel better because they believe it will.
Placebo
Organizing people or resources to take action for a specific cause or event.
Mobilization
Unfair treatment of people based on race, gender, or other personal characteristics.
Discrimination
A peaceful protest in which people occupy a space and refuse to leave to demand change.
Sit-in
Six-year-old girl who was integrated into a white school in 1960.
Ruby Bridges
Someone or something that supports extreme or fundamental change to existing systems.
Radical
A movement or effort started and driven by ordinary people rather than leaders or officials.
Grassroots
Laws that promoted segregation based on race.
Jim Crow Laws
This event was started in retaliation to the arrest of Rosa Parks.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Helped release MLK from prison and provided support for the Civil Rights Movement.
John F. Kennedy
A group of people who share something in common, such as age or a school year.
Cohort
Support and unity among a group of people working toward a common goal.
Solidarity
The event where 200,000 to 300,000 people gathered together in D.C. to stand for racial equality.
The March on Washington
Inspired people to protest against dangerous pesticides causing cancer in children.
Cesar Chavez
Laws passed by the government to protect rights and address injustice.
Legislation
This prominent leader of the Black Panther Party was assassinated in 1965.
Malcolm X