Synonyms for civil rights movement
civil rights move·ment

Princeton's WordNet

1. Civil Rights movementnoun

   movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens

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1. • Movement

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1. Joe Biden:

   When I was a teenager in Delaware, for real, I got involved in the civil rights movement, i’d go to 8 o’clock Mass, then I’d go to Rev. Herring’s church where we’d meet in order to organize and figure where we were going to go, whether we were going to desegregate the Rialto movie theater or what we were going to do.

2. Benjamin Hooks:

   Black Americans are not defeated, the civil rights movement is not dead. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop agitating, they had better think again. If anyone thinks that we are going to stop litigating, they had better close the courts. If anyone thinks that we are not going to demonstrate and protest, they had better roll up the sidewalks.

3. Jordan Peele:

   I consider The Stepford Wives social thrillers, the Stepford Wives're about gender and the women's lib movement and that civil rights movement, but The Stepford Wives're also entertaining mysteries. I figured we could make a' Rosemary's Baby/Stepford Wives' of race.

4. Keisha Blain:

   During the civil rights movement, churches were essential for organizations like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to reach into rural communities and inspire local activists, the Black ministers of today are employing many of the same tactics of religious leaders in the past.

5. Teng Biao:

   It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement.