Glossary

  • Direct action

    Protest method that used peaceful tactics (like sit-ins and boycotts).

  • Disbarred

    revoking one’s license to practice law

  • Discrimination

    the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

  • Disenfranchisement

    the state of being deprived of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.

  • Disparity

    a difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair.

  • Dissent

    When a Justice does not agree with the majority vote on a case.

  • Dissent

    A formal written expression by a justice who has a different point of view on major or minor issues in a case that rejects the result reached by the majority.

  • Dissenting Opinion

    A formal written expression by a justice who has a different point of view on major or minor issues in a case that rejects the result reached by the majority.

  • District courts

    A court that conducts trials of cases.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Leader of the nonviolence movement in Civil Rights.