civil rights worker
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- noun
- /ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈwɜrkər/
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activista de derechos civiles
- During the 1960s, many brave civil rights workers risked their lives to fight for equality in America.
- three civil rights workers
- murdered civil rights workers
- slain civil rights workers
Examples
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When the civil rights workers disappeared, Hoover sent us in.
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The missing civil rights workers were found at an undisclosed grave.
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I am one of these 1965 civil rights workers.
Academic text (2006) -
When the three civil rights workers vanished, it was news.
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Attempts to register black voters in the deep South produced violence and intimidation, even murder, of civil rights workers.
Academic text (1992) -
I was a civil rights worker, an outside agitator to those who resisted our work.
Academic text (2006) -
Today in Jessup County, amidst the violence erupting here this week the nation's fixed on the search for the missing civil rights workers.
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Civil rights workers were jailed routinely, and racist white prisoners managed to savagely beat them.
Academic text (2005) -
What I miss are the howls of pure outrage that greeted the murder of the three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
Blog text (16) -
He's in Alabama and he joins other young civil rights workers on the ground, a number of whom have gone on to great fame and then also infamy.
Synonyms
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A person who works to protect people's basic rights and freedoms
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A person who works to get equal rights for people in minority groups
A person who fights for fairness and equal rights for everyone
Antonyms
How Involved
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who works to secure civil rights' is directly and compositionally derived from 'civil' (relating to citizens/public law) + 'rights' (entitlements) + 'worker' (a person who works). This noun–noun compound follows common, cross-linguistic patterns and would be readily inferable by a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Civil rights worker comes from the simple image of people who work to win civil rights for others; imagine volunteers marching, helping people vote, or teaching about laws, so it means someone active in the movement for 'equal rights'.