civil rights leader
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- noun
- /ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈliːdər/
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líder del movimiento por los derechos civiles
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent civil rights leader who fought for racial equality.
- slain civil rights leader
- black civil rights leader
- civil rights leader Martin Luther King
OK, There was Al Sharpton, the Reverend Al Sharpton, civil rights leader.
- OK, There was Al Sharpton, the Reverend Al Sharpton, civil rights leader.
- But but you know, the big civil rights leaders like Andy Young, Al Sharpton are all behind this ID, this idea.
- You know, the great civil rights leader Malcolm X said a label can kill you quicker than a bullet.
- But this, this is the thing the, the poison is we have so many civil rights leaders.
Examples
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To illustrate this point, let us take for an example the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jesse Jackson and all of the other civil rights leaders from the 1960s did not trust Obama from the get-go.
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If we were talking about civil rights, we could just have a civil rights leader talk.
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The other mistake, of course, is to think that Dr. King was only a civil rights leader.
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Now, who can tell me which civil rights leader was shot in 1968?
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Both are prominent national civil rights leaders and Black ministers.
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Hours later, E. D. Nixon, a civil rights leader, posts bond, and Parks is released.
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Finally, civil rights leaders in Arkansas grew tired of waiting for integration.
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Martin Luther King, the great civil rights leader, came out of the African-American Baptist church.
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Ms. Grant said there was a reason many of the nation's civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, had paid visits to the Howard campus.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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A person who works to get equal rights for people in minority groups
Antonyms
How Influential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built: 'civil' (relating to citizens/public affairs) combined with 'rights' (legal/moral entitlements) yields 'civil rights', and 'leader' denotes a person who leads—so a B1 learner knowing the parts can infer someone who leads efforts for citizens' rights. This is a straightforward noun-noun compound with no idiomatic shift and follows common cross-linguistic patterns, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Civil rights leader shows a simple picture: a leader at the front of a march, standing with civil people called 'citizens' who hold signs for their rights. So a civil rights leader today is someone who leads the fight for 'equal rights' for groups who face unfair treatment.