| 单词 | civil rights movement |
| 释义 | > as lemmascivil rights movement civil rights movement n. any movement working for the civil rights of a particular group or minority; spec. a movement in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s aimed at abolishing racial discrimination and improving the civil rights of African Americans. ΚΠ 1947 Berkshire Evening Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 1 May 12/5 (headline) Robeson ban prompts civil rights movement. 1949 Atlanta Daily World 6 May 1/4 We should support the civil rights movement which is for the abolition of segregation in interstate travel. 1963 Times 6 Sept. 10/4 The bomb attack on the house of..the lawyer active in the civil rights movement, caused no bodily harm. 1988 D. French Working (1991) ix. 293 All the politicians would be there,..all the people I had ever worked with in the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement, all the media people in town, in other words, everyone in Atlanta would be there. 2000 S. McKay Northern Protestants 109 Looking back, Crumlin said he could see the civil rights movement had legitimate grievances. < as lemmas |
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