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Civil Rights Vocabulary

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Integrationthe inclusion of people of all races on an equal basis in neighborhoods, schools, parks, or other facilities.
Segregationthe separation of one racial group from another or from the rest of society, especially in schools, theaters, restaurants, and other public places.
Civil Rights Movementmass popular movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship.
Boycottprotest in form of refusal to engage or do business with an organization or country.
Desegregationthe doing away with the practice of providing separate schools and other public facilities for racial groups, especially blacks and whites.
Unconstitutionalagainst the law.
Civil Rightsthe rights guaranteed by a nation's government to all its citizens.
Discriminationunfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or ethnicity.
Sit-innon-violent protests in which people who disagree with something sit down at a place where the injustice is being committed, and refuse to move for a specific period of time, or until the injustice stops.
Demonstrationsgatherings of people to protest acts of injustice, or to get the support of the people to change something that needs to be changed in the law or society.



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