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
• The politics of the civil rights movement had bubbled up into the charts.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 10 Nov. 2023
• The White River:Cleanup follows decades of civil rights abuses.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 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
• 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
• Wade Hammond, a prominent civil rights leader in Phoenix, also owned the home for a time.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
• 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
• Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader and organizer of the March on Washington, is the focus of a new biopic.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• The Pride flag is widely seen as a symbol of civil rights and is flown by many government agencies across the United States.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Paul McCartney wrote the song in the summer of 1968, inspired by the American civil rights movement.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
• And then on top of everything else, at the precipice of what looked to be forward momentum for the civil rights movement, Dr. King was murdered here.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
• Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Chavez — there is a bust of the civil rights leader behind his desk in the Oval Office.
  — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Eig’s book has been called the definitive biography of the late civil rights icon.
  — Variety, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• The injury to his neck and spine left Cox paralyzed from the chest down, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• The strike and national grape boycott evolved into a civil rights movement.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
• Democrats ultimately gave in and removed the water projects and civil rights provisions, and Congress passed the crime bill.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2023
• Critics have said the Texas law could lead to civil rights violations and racial profiling.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
• Is said general law consistent with the act of Congress to protect the colored people in their civil rights?
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Harris, a civil rights activist, doesn’t have a campaign website but has posted a campaign video on YouTube.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023
• He’s considered not only a sports legend but also a civil rights icon.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Active in the civil rights movement, Lovelace O’Neal has long made work in which racial politics were embedded, even when that work was abstract.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2024
• Richard Hunt, a prolific sculptor who was influenced by the civil rights movement and whose public art can be seen across the United States, has died.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• In the memory of Denise Carter and the legacy of the civil rights movement, there are stories imperative to Birmingham’s past and its future.
  — Alaina Bookman | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2023
• Porter played a unique role in the critical anti-segregation demonstrations of 1963 that were a turning point in the civil rights movement.
  — Greg Garrison | , al, 5 Apr. 2023
• This anarchic Belfast trio becomes the unlikely figurehead of a civil rights movement to save the mother tongue.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
• Nikole Hannah-Jones examines how the fall of affirmative action may be viewed as part of a 50-year campaign to undermine the progress of the civil rights movement.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• As part of a coalition of community, labor, and civil rights groups, unions helped Democrats win back control of the Michigan legislature in 2022.
  — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• If passed, Senate Bill 403 would have made California the first state in the nation to explicitly acknowledge caste in its civil rights code.
  — Jeong Park, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The civil rights advocacy group was itself founded as a result of the initial moment, the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
  — Sandhya Dirks, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024