CIVIL RIGHTS VOCABULARY 6 Steps to learning new vocabulary Marazano

Definitions  Your vocabulary will be introduced with definitions – please write the definition in YOUR OWN words and draw a PICTURE that helps explain the vocabulary word…

14 th (XIV) Amendment  Grants citizenship to all people born in the U.S. (giving former slaves citizenship).

15 th (XV)Amendment  Granted slaves and African-Americans the right to vote.

Brown v. Board of Education  A unanimous Supreme Court ruling in 1954 declaring that separate schools based on race was unconstitutional.  It overturned the ruling Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).

Civil Rights Act 1957  An ineffective legislative act often forgotten and looked over, however it was the first piece of civil rights legislation since Reconstruction…

Civil Rights Act 1964  Landmark legislation outlawing segregation in public places, employment, and schools by anyone; or discrimination against women

Freedom Riders  Civil Rights activists who rode buses into the Deep South to test newly created desegregated transportation laws. Riders were both black and white.

Lyndon Baines Johnson  36 th President of the U.S. who signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a nd the Voting Rights Act of 1965

John Fitzgerald Kennedy-  35 th President of the U.S. who ordered federal marshals to protect Freedom Riders, and African American students who enrolled in the University of Alabama

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Civil Rights leader from 1955 until his assassination in Led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, March on Washington, and the SCLC.

Little Rock Nine  Nine African American students who tried to attend Little Rock Central High School in 1957, but were blocked by the Governor of Arkansas, and later helped by President Eisenhower.

lynching  Illegal execution of a person found guilty and punished by a mob.

NAACP  (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People): Civil Rights organization founded on the principle that all men and women are created equal.

Rosa Parks  African American woman arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man during the time of segregated bus seating She became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement

Plessy v. Ferguson  1896 Supreme Court case which ruled that the doctrine “Separate but Equal” was constitutional, allowing for legal segregation

SCLC  (Southern Christian Leadership Conference): Civil Rights organization founded on the principle of non-violent protests, and led by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dred Scott  A former slave who sued for his freedom but lost in the Supreme Court 1854.

segregation  The separation of different racial or ethnic groups in daily life.

Sit-ins  A form of non-violent protest by members of SNCC. Students would sit at lunch counters for whites only and refuse to leave, often enduring racial slurs and violence.

SNCC  (Students Non-Violent Co-coordinating Committee): A non-violent protest organization organized by students and run by students.

Voting Rights Act 1965  Ensured that every citizen of the country is allowed to vote and outlawed any discriminatory voting practices. Poll taxes, literacy tests…

Malcolm X  An African American leader during the Civil Rights movement who took a more radical approach to protests than Martin Luther King Jr.  After a journey to Mecca (Muslims’ Holy City) he has a change of heart but he is assassinated by The Nation of Islam his former group

The End  Make sure you used your own words in the definitions and that you drew some picture representation of the word.  History is Fun!!! Later this week we will plan games with these words!