click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| grassroots activism | political movements driven by people who individually do not have much power |
| CORE | Congress of Racial Equality |
| dehumanized | to treat people as if they weren't human beings |
| integrated | allowing the free association of people of different races |
| desegregation | the process of ending a policy that forces the separation of groups into public places |
| civil disobediance | the nonviolent disobeying of laws as a form of protest |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | A mass protest, sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, against the racial segregation, practices of the bus system |
| sit-ins | an organized protest where people sit down and refuse to leave |
| Freedom Riders | Interracial groups who rode busses in the South and ignored white and colored signs when they stopped at restrooms |
| solitary confinement | a form of punishment isolating a prisoner from contact with others |
| voter registration drive | an effort by groups or government to sign up as many eligible voters in a targeted area as possible |
| Freedom Summer | People came from everywhere to work with civil organization |