NOUN
- movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
How To Use Civil Rights movement In A Sentence
- These ideas resurfaced again in the American civil rights movement.
- War and the civil rights movement gave her a purpose, and that when they came to an end she was left floundering. Times, Sunday Times
- State Director for IUE, I continued my involvement in the Civil Rights movement, in the political movement, and they were involved with migrants and that is when I first became involved with what we call the eastern stream of migrants, but not very heavily involved. Oral History Interview with Jim Pierce, July 16, 1974. Interview E-0012-3. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- The State's population consist of poor white people who left the mideastern states during the civil rights movement and took their racial hate with them and profited. js ... santee calif Arizona lawmakers still pushing 'birther' measure
- It was not until Harry S Truman added civil rights to the 1948 party platform - under pressure from the mayor of Minneapolis, Hubert Humphrey - and desegrated the armed forces that the Democrats were identified with the civil rights movement. January 2004
- Martin Luther King Jr. was the major leader of the civil rights movement in the Untied States, not an unfettered Roman Catholic cleric.
- It all adds up to a strong presumption that unless there's a clear family resemblance to the civil rights movement, civil disobedience is simply beyond the pale. Christianity Today
- These ideas resurfaced again in the American civil rights movement.
- He talked about the civil rights movement, the need for political engagement, careful analysis, honest leadership.
- A child of the civil rights movement, she attended integrated schools and sends her son to one of Atlanta's tony private academies.
