NOUN
- a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
How To Use civil rights leader In A Sentence
- As a civil rights leader, he was always out front.
- The recipient of daily death threats, the civil rights leader clearly had good reason to carry around a gun to defend himself.
- As a civil rights leader, he was always out front.
- Indeed, after several days of rioting, white business and government leaders sat down with the civil rights leader and signed an agreement that allowed blacks full access to commercial and public spaces in the city and desegregated jobs in downtown stores. A Renegade History of the United States
- From the Boston Globe:Mitt Romney acknowledged yesterday that he never saw his father march with Martin Luther King Jr. as he asserted in a nationally televised speech this month, and historical evidence shows that Michigan's Governor George Romney and the civil rights leader never did march together. Romney lied during his "I'm a Christian too" speech, said he watched his father march with Martin Luther King - never happened
- U. S. President-elect Barack Obama pays tribute today (Monday) to the late African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. by focusing on community service.
- More familiar, but less important, were the internal squabbles and petty jealousies among civil rights leaders that hindered, but never hamstrung, the movement for justice.
- During the bus boycott, local civil rights leaders described her to the press as “mild-mannered and soft-spoken,” a “lady . . . who was too sweet to even say damn in anger,” and “a typical American housewife.” A Renegade History of the United States
- The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader
- Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader who was born in eighteen seventy-five.
