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Civil Rights Vocabulary

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  • Peaceful resistance to immoral laws
    Civil Disobedience
  • Integrated bus rides in the South
    Freedom Rides
  • Made segregation legal
    Plessy v Ferguson
  • Refuse to ride a bus or purchase something
    Boycott
  • Protest in restaurants
    Sit-In
  • Test you must pass to vote
    Literacy Test
  • Made slavery illegal
    13th Amendment
  • Talking a politician into a law
    Lobbying
  • Using the courts to get a bad law made illegal
    Litigation
  • Take away ability to participate in political process (can't vote)
    Disenfranchisement
  • Said all Americans, regardless of race, get equal protection under the law
    14th Amendment
  • Fee to vote
    Poll Tax
  • Gave all men the right to vote
    15th Amendment
  • Integration
    Desegregation