Civil Rights Glossary
Here are some words that will help you understand the civil rights movement and the Montgomery bus boycott:
Appeal: To ask for a decision made by a court of law to be changed.
Boycott: To refuse to buy something or to take part in something as a way of protesting.
Creed: A system of beliefs; a guiding belief.
Defiance: The act of refusing to obey someone or some organization.
Discrimination: Prejudice or unjust behavior to others based on differences in age, race, gender, and so on.
Harass: To pester or annoy someone.
Integrate: To include people of all races.
Oppression: The act of treating people in a cruel and unjust way.
Provoke: To annoy someone and make the person angry.
Restrictive: Confining or keeping within limits.
Retaliatory: Revengeful; used to describe something unpleasant done to someone because the person has done something unpleasant to you.
Segregate: To separate or keep people or things apart from the main group.
Segregation: The act or practice of keeping people or groups apart.
Sharecropper: A farmer who gives a share of the crop to the landowner.
Tactics: Plans or methods to win a game or battle or achieve a goal.
Trivial: Not very important.
Unconstitutional: Not in keeping with the basic principles or laws set forth in the constitution of a state or country, especially the Constitution of the United States.
Violate: To break a promise, a rule, or a law.
This glossary has been adapted from the Scholastic Children's Dictionary.
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Rosa
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Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.
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March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
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March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Dr. Christine King Farris and London Ladd
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2009 Andrew Carnegie Medal Winner
From Dr. Martin Luther King's sister, the definitive tribute to the man, the march, and the speech that changed a nation.
On a hot August day in 1963, hundreds of thousands of people made history when they marched into Washington, D.C., in search of equality. Martin Luther King, Jr., the younger brother of Christine King Farris, was one of them.
Martin was scheduled to speak to the crowds of people on that day. But before he could stand up and inspire a nation, he had to get down to business. He first had to figure out what to say and how to say it. So he spent all night working on his "I Have a Dream" speech, one that would underscore a landmark moment in civil rights history -- the Great March on Washington. This would be one of the first events televised all over the globe. The world would be listening, as one of the greatest orators of our time shared his vision for a new day.
From the sister of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., comes this moving account of what that day was like for her, and for the man who inspired a crowd -- and convinced a nation to let freedom ring.
London Ladd's beautiful full-color illustrations bring to life the thousands of people from all over the country who came to the nation's capital. They sing, they join hands, they march, and they listen as speaker after speaker inspires social change, culminating in Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
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