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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Cooperative Economics New Orleans’s large population of free people of color created social and political advancements, a hundred years before the Civil Rights Movement.
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Cierra Chenier, Essence, 25 June 2024
These efforts date back to the women’s suffrage movement, and many groups played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2024
Hats And The Civil Rights Movement Wearing hats in church grew in popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and throughout the early 20th century.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 June 2024
So Was the Civil Rights Movement Still, Black Americans protested.
—John M. Giggie / Made By History, TIME, 7 June 2024
Former President William Taft, then chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dedicated the memorial that has, through the decades, maintained symbolic significance within and beyond the Civil Rights Movement.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
Their grandparents were traumatized by violent reactions to the Civil Rights Movement.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 24 May 2024
During the Civil Rights Movement, Epton created a system for dealing with customers who demanded tickets in an all-white seating section despite the speedway never having segregated grandstands.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 24 May 2024
The establishment of Black, Native, Latino and Asian American studies in California followed the Civil Rights Movement and protests of the 1960s.
—Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
Cierra Chenier, Essence, 25 June 2024
These efforts date back to the women’s suffrage movement, and many groups played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.
—Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2024
Hats And The Civil Rights Movement Wearing hats in church grew in popularity during the Harlem Renaissance and throughout the early 20th century.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 June 2024
So Was the Civil Rights Movement Still, Black Americans protested.
—John M. Giggie / Made By History, TIME, 7 June 2024
Former President William Taft, then chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dedicated the memorial that has, through the decades, maintained symbolic significance within and beyond the Civil Rights Movement.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
Their grandparents were traumatized by violent reactions to the Civil Rights Movement.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 24 May 2024
During the Civil Rights Movement, Epton created a system for dealing with customers who demanded tickets in an all-white seating section despite the speedway never having segregated grandstands.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 24 May 2024
The establishment of Black, Native, Latino and Asian American studies in California followed the Civil Rights Movement and protests of the 1960s.
—Pawan Dhingra, The Conversation, 21 May 2024
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