Unit 9: Civil Rights Vocabulary

To end the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group.

• Integrate

• Massive Resistance

• Sit-in

• Segregation

The act of occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment as a form of organized protest.

• Massive Resistance

• Sit-in

• Feminism

• Interposition

Southern states resistance of Supreme Court decisions and their vow not to enforce them.

• Civil Disobedience

• Sit-in

• Massive Resistance

• Feminism

Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust as a nonviolent way to press for changes.

• Civil Disobedience

• Massive Resistance

• Integrate

• Grassroots

The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group.

• Segregation

• Integrate

• Civil Disobedience

• Sit-in

Political, Economic, and Social changes that originates from the people as opposed to the government

• Grassroots

• Massive Resistance

• NAACP

• Civil Disobediance

Civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 by W.E.B Du Bois as an endeavor to advance justice and Civil Rights for African Americans.

• Sit-in

• NAACP

• Feminism

• Grassroots

The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities.

• Feminism

• Grassroots

• Interposition

• Civil Disobedience

It is illegal to deny anyone the right to participate in, deny the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any federally funded educational programs or activities on the basis of gender.

• Higher Education Act (Title IX)

• Massive Resistance

• Grassroots

• NAACP

Governors interjecting the State governments between the federal government and its citizens in an attempt to not end segregation policies.

• Interposition

• Sit-in

• Civil Disobedience

• The Higher Education Act (Title IX)