| A | B |
|---|
| integrate | to open to people of all backgrounds; to bring together |
| executive order | a rule made by the President |
| appeal | to ask a higher court to review the decision of a lower court |
| desegregate | to end segregation, or separation of the races |
| boycott | a nonviolent protest in which people refuse to buy products or use services |
| Voting Rights Act | an act stating that states could not prevent African Americans from registering to vote |
| civil disobedience | a nonviolent refusal to obey laws or government demands in order to cause change |
| Jackie Robinson | The first African American baseball player on a major league team |
| Thurgood Marshall | a lawyer for the NAACP who fought to gain civil rights for all Americans. |
| Rosa Parks | Refused to give up her seat on the bus |
| Martin Luther King | one of the main leaders in the Civil Rights Movement |
| sit-in | a non violent protest in which people sit down and refuse to get up |
| xenophobia | fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners |
| stereotype | to believe unfairly that all people or things with a particular characteristic are the same |
| ethnocentrism | an attitude that one's own group is superior |
| segregate | the practice or policy of keeping people of different races, religions, etc., separate from each other |
