Civil Rights Movement

noun

variants or less commonly American Civil Rights Movement

: a movement (see movement sense 2b(1)) for racial equality in the U.S. that came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s

Examples of Civil Rights Movement in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the years following the Civil Rights Movement, shepherded by Black Americans, women were fighting to find an equal place in society. —Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025

The Civil Rights Movement implemented extensive workshopping, training and role-playing, which helped build skills for forthcoming actions. —Michael Shank, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025

All sorts of things are happening in the Civil Rights Movement, really violent things that are changing the character of what the movement was about. —Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025

The most recent of that group was Raphael Benjamin West, who presided over a critical period of change for Nashville during the Civil Rights Movement. —Austin Hornbostel, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Civil Rights Movement

• improvement