Civil Rights Movement
noun
variants
or less commonly American Civil Rights Movement
: a movement (see movement sense 2b) for racial equality in the U.S. that came to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s
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But Rustin resumed his work in 1963 as chief organizer of the March on Washington, which became a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement and paved the way for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Jaylen Green, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Random House is portrayed as open, even eager to publish Black writers in the immediate wake of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of the Black Arts Movement of poets like Amiri Baraka and Nikki Giovanni.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
While at The Tennessean, his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement captured photos of a pivotal moment in both Nashville’s and the nation’s history.
—Ruben Montoya, The Tennessean, 4 July 2025
His mother often emphasized that point by telling him the story of Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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Jaylen Green, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2025
Random House is portrayed as open, even eager to publish Black writers in the immediate wake of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of the Black Arts Movement of poets like Amiri Baraka and Nikki Giovanni.
—John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
While at The Tennessean, his coverage of the Civil Rights Movement captured photos of a pivotal moment in both Nashville’s and the nation’s history.
—Ruben Montoya, The Tennessean, 4 July 2025
His mother often emphasized that point by telling him the story of Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement.
—Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
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