NOUN
- a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
How To Use civil rights activist In A Sentence
- Within months, the religious right had begun to compare her plight with that of civil rights activists in the I 950s.
- Civil rights activists have challenged the company to hire more minorities.
- And once again we have a community assembly of unionists, clergy and civil rights activists taking a stand on high moral ground.
- Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. dies at age 78.
- The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African Americans as being synonymous with monkeys," civil rights activist Al Sharpton said.
- IN particular, photographs of this woman, later identified as Amelia Boynton, a civil rights activist who had been beaten and gassed nearly to death, horrified all who saw them.
- The great body of liberal politicians, trade unionists and civil rights activists who fought apartheid and have not compromised with the government is again on the march. Times, Sunday Times
- Well, Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and civil rights activist, for one.
- Within months, the religious right had begun to compare her plight with that of civil rights activists in the I 950s.
- He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.