Sample Sentences forcivil rights movement (editor-reviewed)
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Aretha Franklin is remembered as the Queen of Soul, but she was also an integral part of the civil rights movement.civil rights movement = popular effort to establish political and social equality for African Americans in the USA (1954-1968)
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The civil rights movement was too diverse and fragmented to be credited to any one person, but Martin Luther King Jr. is most commonly associated with it.
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Some blame race relations and the Democratic Party's embrace of the civil rights movement. (source)
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"They support the civil rights movement," he reported. (source)
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This was my state of mind when Dr. Kimball began to lecture on something called the civil rights movement. (source)civil rights movement = popular effort to establish political and social equality for African Americans
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Despite a long history of oppression the 1960s civil rights movement in Savannah was almost entirely nonviolent. (source)civil rights movement = popular effort to establish political and social equality for African Americans in the USA (1954-1968)
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I'm too curious to be scared, and I'd like to know more about how a black kid growing up in the sixties—when the civil rights movement and Vietnam War divided the country and cities like Cleveland were on fire—beat the odds and ended up in Juilliard's classical music program. (source)civil rights movement = popular effort to establish political and social equality for African Americans in the USA (1954-1968)
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Men like Saul Alinsky and Father Groppi and others, who were regarded as heroes of the civil rights movement, began to fade from public view, although continuing to work privately. (source)
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Even in the United States, after all, what brought equal rights to blacks wasn't the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments passed after the Civil War, but rather the grassroots civil rights movement nearly one hundred years later. (source)
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My outrage that day became the propellant of my life, driving me straight to the civil rights movement, where I've worked ever since. (source)
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Despite the danger, the civil rights movement grew stronger, gaining support all over the country.† (source)
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But he is putting into words the ultimate goal of the civil rights movement.† (source)
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In fact, the chief judge on the court, John Patterson, had famously sued The New York Times over their coverage of the Civil Rights Movement when he was Alabama's governor.† (source)
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If the intersection of 16th Street and Sixth Avenue North is a shrine to the civil rights movement, it is Connor's unmarked grave.† (source)
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They'd charge us with integration violation—I read about it in the paper all the time—they despise the whites that meet with the coloreds to help with the civil rights movement.† (source)
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To me, his commanding legacy lives in the thousands of Americans he inspired to get involved in their communities, schools, neighborhoods, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Peace Corps.† (source)
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