How to Use civil rights in a Sentence

civil rights

plural noun

• So within that, the ward of the court loses all their civil rights.
  — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
• Of the civil rights lions, Young is one of the few who have gotten close.
  — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 11 Mar. 2022
• The civil rights laws of the 1960s opened up voting again for Tennesseans.
  — Bianca Fortis, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2022
• In 2014, he was called as a witness in a civil rights lawsuit filed against the town and Hildale.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
• Here is a look at the life of civil rights activist Julian Bond.
  — CNN, 29 Aug. 2022
• It’s not even for people who are good civil rights lawyers.
  — Rita Omokha, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2022
• But civil rights groups have sued in two cases that the judge combined.
  — Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
• The civil rights charge against Haley carries up to 10 years.
  — Adrian Sainz, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• The blowback comes from some customers, a group of Democrats in Congress and civil rights groups.
  — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
• While they were spared prison terms, Schwimmer and others were fined and stripped of their civil rights.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
• Till’s brutal 1955 murder in the Jim Crow South helped spark the civil rights movement.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• The politics of the civil rights movement had bubbled up into the charts.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 10 Nov. 2023
• Georgia was also the home of the late Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon for whom one of the voting rights bills now stalled in the Senate is named.
  — Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
• Days of civil rights protests followed locally and around the world.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
• The White River:Cleanup follows decades of civil rights abuses.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
• Retired now, Vernon was at the forefront of the civil rights movement.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
• But in the summer of 1967, the civil rights group used its newsletter to weigh in on a different topic.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• He is considered as much a sports legend as a civil rights icon.
  — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 9 Aug. 2024
• That to me was a surprising thing, because of course the civil rights movement was going on.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2024
• Since then, Afghans have faced rising poverty and a crackdown on civil rights.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• After 1900, this area drew many of Phoenix’s Black residents and has long been the city’s focal point for the civil rights movement.
  — AZCentral.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• An openly gay Black man did not easily fit in — even in the heart of a movement for civil rights and justice.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
• Key forces in and around the Democratic Party, such as labor unions and civil rights groups, didn't like Carter and rallied to Kennedy.
  — Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
• Wade Hammond, a prominent civil rights leader in Phoenix, also owned the home for a time.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, civil rights advocates have grown frustrated over the pace of reform.
  — David Nakamura, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
• The shift from the ’60s to the ’70s ushered in social change, with the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War influencing filmmaking.
  — Les Borsai, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2023
• Five of the eight surviving civil rights leaders attended the event.
  — Rikki Klaus, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the years that followed, Emmett’s killing became one of the galvanizing events of the civil rights movement.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• It was taken down in 2017, following years of protest by civil rights advocates.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
• Trump’s approval rating on all four issues both the April and July UMass polls asked about—inflation, immigration, jobs and civil rights—declined, with immigration dropping the most points (nine).
  — Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025