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Civil Rights
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| activist | a person who campaigns to bring about political or social change. |
| Boycott | A refusal to buy or use goods and services. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. |
| Civil Disobedience | A nonviolent, public refusal to obey unjust laws. |
| Civil Rights Movement | a social movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, in which people organized to demand equal rights for African Americans and other minorities. People worked together to change unfair laws. |
| Desegregation | The ending of segregation, or separation by race. |
| Integration | the act of uniting or bringing together, especially people of different races |
| Little Rock Nine | A group of students who were enrolled in a white high school on the basis of being black |
| Lynching | putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob |
| March | A form of protest where a large group of people gather and walk together. They usually carry signs and may sign songs or recite chants. |
| protest | An event in which people gather to show disapproval of something. There are several forms of protest, they can be both violent and nonviolent. |
| riot | A form of protest where people take part in violent and uncontrolled public behavior. Often there is looting and destruction. |
| sit-in | A form of protest where people occupy seats in a racially segregated establishment in organized protest against discrimination. |
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