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

Examples of Civil Rights Movement in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

From the time of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Church has often been more generous-hearted and justice-tilted than its white evangelical counterparts. —Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 4 July 2024

The 76-year-old veteran of the Civil Rights Movement makes the pilgrimage nearly each year in part to share with young people the importance of voting. —Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024

Bob Moses, who helped register Black residents to vote in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, believed civil rights went beyond the ballot box. —Liza Bondurant, The Conversation, 19 June 2024

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. —Cierra Chenier, Essence, 25 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1872, in the meaning defined above