enFICivil Rights Vocabulary5
Jim Crow Laws:Legislation that called for separate public facilities for whites and people of color.
Segregation:The separation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary restriction in social interactions, educational facilities, or other means of discrimination.
Discrimination: Treatment or consideration of a person or thing based on the group, to which that person or thing belongs to rather than on individual merit.
Separate but Equal:A requirement by law that stated that it is constitutional to separate the facilities used by people of color from whites as long as they provided equal services.
Civil Rights Movement:1950-1980 as a result of the separate but equal ruling by the Supreme Court.
Civil Rights Vocabulary
Treatment or consideration of a person or thing based on the group, to which that person or thing belongs to rather than on individual merit.
1950-1980 as a result of the separate but equal ruling by the Supreme Court.
The separation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary restriction in social interactions, educational facilities, or other means of discrimination.
Legislation that called for separate public facilities for whites and people of color.
A requirement by law that stated that it is constitutional to separate the facilities used by people of color from whites as long as they provided equal services.