Civil Rights Vocabulary Quiz

The protections and privileges guaranteed by law to citizens of a country

• civil rights

• discrimination

• affirmative action

• integration

A belief that people of one race are superior to the people of another

• prejudice

• segregation

• racism

• discrimination

Bus trip taken by black and white volunteers to test a desegregation law

• Brown v. Board of Education

• civil disobedience

• Freedom Ride

• Jim Crow laws

Laws that supported segregation and took away African Americans’ right to vote.

• Jim Crow laws

• Brown v Board of Education

• Freedom Ride

• prejudice

A policy of keeping people of different races separate.

• segregation

• civil rights movement

• integration

• racism

Dislike of certain people based on race, gender, or other characteristics.

• racism

• prejudice

• discrimination

• civil disobedience

Showing disapproval or resistance in a way that does not include violence.

• civil disobedience

• civil rights movement

• nonviolent protest

• Freedom Ride

Breaking a law thought to be unfair and being willing to go to jail.

• desegregation

• civil disobedience

• civil rights movement

• nonviolent protest

Treating one group of people unfairly on the basis of race, gender, or some other factor.

• prejudice

• discrimination

• prejudice

• racism

A Supreme Court decision that ended segregation in schools

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Freedom Ride

• Jim Crow laws

• integration