Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary

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Civil Rights MovementVocabulary

• By Melissa Meadows

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Civil rights

• Rights to personal liberty established by the
  13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
  and certain Congressional acts, esp. as applied
  to an individual or a minority group.

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Civil Rights Movement

• movement in the United States beginning in the
  1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to
  establish the civil rights of individual Black
  citizens 

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Protest

• an expression or declaration of objection,
  disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to
  something a person is powerless to prevent or
  avoid

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Boycott

• to combine in abstaining from, or preventing
  dealings with, as a means of intimidation or
  coercion

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Nonviolence

• peacefully resistant, as in response to or
  protest against injustice, esp. on moral or
  philosophical grounds.

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Freedom Ride

• a bus trip made to parts of the southern U.S. by
  persons engaging in efforts to integrate racially
  segregated public facilities.

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Sit in

• an organized passive protest, esp. against racial
  segregation, in which the demonstrators occupy
  seats prohibited to them, as in restaurants and
  other public places.

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Poll tax

• a capitation tax, the payment of which is
  sometimes a prerequisite to exercise the right of
  suffrage.

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Jim Crow Laws

• any state law discriminating against black
  persons.

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Integration

• an act or instance of integrating a racial,
  religious, or ethnic group.