Civil Rights Movement
noun
variants
or less commonly American Civil Rights Movement
: a movement (see movement sense 2b) for racial equality in the U.S. that came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s
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How The Controversy Started Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum of American History.
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Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
The idea was developed based on communal or cooperative communities in Israel and was implemented to help Black sharecroppers in Southwest Georgia who were being forced off their land by white farmers because of their participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025
Landmark legislation and court decisions of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, were intended to rebuke the nearly centurylong rule of Jim Crow, which not only disenfranchised, but also dehumanized Black people.
—Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025
As a Baptist minister and theologian, King brought nonviolent resistance to the center of the Civil Rights Movement, combining the teachings of Gandhi with the urgency of Black liberation.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025
The idea was developed based on communal or cooperative communities in Israel and was implemented to help Black sharecroppers in Southwest Georgia who were being forced off their land by white farmers because of their participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025
Landmark legislation and court decisions of the Civil Rights Movement, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, were intended to rebuke the nearly centurylong rule of Jim Crow, which not only disenfranchised, but also dehumanized Black people.
—Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Apr. 2025
As a Baptist minister and theologian, King brought nonviolent resistance to the center of the Civil Rights Movement, combining the teachings of Gandhi with the urgency of Black liberation.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for Civil Rights Movement
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“Civil Rights Movement.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Civil%20Rights%20Movement. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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