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SS8 Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement 1950's - 1960's
Term | Definition |
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Advocacy | Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy that brings about change. |
Civil Rights Movement | A movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the United States during the 1950's & 1960's. |
Sit-ins | An example of nonviolent protest where people refuse to leave a restaurant or other establishment until their demands are met. |
Non-Violent Resistance | the practice of achieving goals such as social change through protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, or other methods while being nonviolent. |
Boycott | To refuse to buy something or to take part in something as a way of protesting. |
Integration | the practice of uniting people from different races in an attempt to give people equal rights. |
Segregation | The separation, either by law or by action, of people of different races in all manner of daily activities, such as education, housing, and the use of public facilities. |
Unconstitutional | A violation of the basic principles or laws set forth in the Constitution of the United States. |
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | U.S. Supreme Court decision that made segregation illegal in public schools. |
Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Ended the use of poll taxes and literacy tests, which were used to prevent African-Americans from voting. |
Freedom Riders | Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States to challenge racial segregation. |
Injustice | Unfairness or undeserved outcomes that lack justice. |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) | A civil rights organization in the U.S, formed to advance justice for African Americans |
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) | A civil-rights group formed to give younger African Americans who aimed to achieve political and economic equality for African American. |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | An organization established to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South through nonviolent resistance. |
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) | An organization founded to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the U.S. |
Equality | The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. |