Civil Rights movement
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈsɪvəl raɪts ˈmuːvmənt/
- US
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movimiento por los derechos civiles
- After the Supreme Court decision, Rosa Parks was called the mother of the civil rights movement.
- Black Civil Rights movement
- 1960s Civil Rights movement
- 1950s Civil Rights movement
And this is right in the midst of the civil rights movement.
- And this is right in the midst of the civil rights movement.
- I grew up in the South in the middle of the civil rights movement.
- The civil rights movement was not a series of marches that changed people's minds.
- You know, John Lewis, who led the March in Selma, he famously said the civil rights movement would be a bird without wings, without, without free speech.
- And then that started the Montgomery, AL bus boycott, which essentially kicked off the modern day civil rights movement.
- It was one of the anthems of the civil rights movement, and its first verse contains the words they say that freedom is a constant struggle.
- Working in the civil Rights movement gave knowledge, training, experience, and proficiencies to the women who participated in it.
- I mean, that's why the civil rights movement succeeds.
- And so while we're working on, you know, our souls, we're losing the franchise, which, you know, the civil rights movement has fought long and hard.
- But in reality, what he realized, the risk to the civil rights movement were really wide, and we'll call him diverse.
- So yeah, I would say those stories, those narratives which came through television, early television, civil rights movement.
Examples
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Sit-ins were an important tactic in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Fiction book (2002) -
My father was involved in the civil rights movement.
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And many of us were involved in the civil rights movement.
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What did you learn from this activity about the Civil Rights movement?
Academic text (1993) -
Many of the major battles of the civil rights movement have already been fought.
Fiction book (2000) -
Martin Luther King Jr. went on to lead many other battles in the civil rights movement.
Fiction book (2001) -
My father was involved in the civil rights movement to promote equality for Black Americans.
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The civil rights movement of the 1960s aimed to end segregation and discrimination.
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I'm writing my thesis on the impact of the civil rights movement in American history.
How Influential
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently compositional: a 'movement' (collective action) concerning 'civil' matters and 'rights' (legal/moral entitlements) clearly yields a social/political campaign to secure citizens' rights. This construction ("X rights movement") and the underlying logic are common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Civil Rights movement is the name for the big effort in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s when people marched and protested to end unfair treatment of Black Americans and win equal rights. The words make a clear picture: civil means 'of citizens' and rights means 'the freedoms people should have', so the name shows people coming together to get equal treatment under the law.