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Civil Rights movement

Definitions of Civil Rights movement
  1. noun
    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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    type of:
    front, movement, social movement
    a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
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