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civil rights leader

NOUN
  1. a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups

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  • The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader
  • Yet he makes a terrible mistake in treating the traditional civil rights leaders as soreheads because they attack him.
  • He also told the Committee that Lapaglia had taken some of the Main 21 leaders on a trip to Michigan to purchase guns and on another trip to Philadelphia to attend a black-power conference where the murders of certain nonmilitant civil rights leaders were plotted. Chicago's Blackstone Rangers (I)
  • The Koch brothers' plan to resegregate schools hit a roadblock when students, parents, teachers, and civil rights leaders united to stop the return to Jim Crow. Robert Greenwald: There Are Many More Koch Brother Secret Sins (VIDEO)
  • The most recent films chosen were "Study of a River," an experimental 1996 film about the Hudson River, and "Malcolm X," Spike Lee's 1992 biography of the civil rights leader. 'The Empire Strikes Back' Inducted Into Library of Congress
  • From the late 1960s, big-city mayors and civil rights leaders charged that the census undercounted minorities and the poor.
  • Named for Lenny Zakim, a local, beloved civil rights leader, and the nearby Bunker Hill Monument, which commemorates a Revolutionary War battle, the bridge incorporates elements of the monument in its design.
  • Commenting about the recent bestowal of Presidential Medals of Freedom on renowned singer Marian Anderson and Dr. Ralph Bunche, noted diplomat and first African American winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, columnist Al Duckett offered advice to help Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, who had just delivered his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech the previous August, avoid being overlooked in the future. Megan Smolenyak: Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The Great Migration
  • Bethune was an American educator and civil rights leader who was born in eighteen seventy-five.
  • As a civil rights leader, he was always out front.
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