How to Use Civil Rights Movement in a Sentence

Civil Rights Movement

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  • The piece is meant to mark the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches, a key event in the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Among the building blocks of the Civil Rights Movement was music.
    — Bev-Freda Jackson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The markers highlight the people, places and events that cement the city's place in the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Journal Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Till’s killing helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
  • And then finally, this was the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Mackenzie McCarty, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The couple’s activism goes back to the fifties and sixties, during the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 8 Feb. 2024
  • By the early 1960s, Belafonte had become a force in the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Alex Johnson, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Thanks to the then-burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, passing would soon be passé.
    — Time, 29 July 2023
  • Emmett’s death was a catalyst in the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
  • These efforts date back to the women’s suffrage movement, and many groups played a pivotal role during the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2024
  • There are still living ministers from the Civil Rights Movement, and [the workshop] was for young ministers.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Jones-Sawyer learned from his family the backstory of that very image, which is now used in histories of the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Karen Breslau, Fortune, 7 June 2023
  • The 76-year-old veteran of the Civil Rights Movement makes the pilgrimage nearly each year in part to share with young people the importance of voting.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024
  • His works, which accompanied the rise of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, continue to influence writers and activists to this day.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Civil Rights Movement, for instance, was based on the premise that moral persuasion could force law and politics to take steps beyond what many voters were ready for.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Their resilience in the wake of unimaginable loss and adversity serves as a testament to the strength and endurance of Black women during the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Essence, 31 Jan. 2024
  • During the Civil Rights Movement, women leaders often marched in their church hats as a symbol of dignity.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 9 June 2024
  • And that’s so different from, say, the Civil Rights Movement, which had so many incredible anthems people were singing together in the streets.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Most of the groups were founded by the children and grandchildren of formerly enslaved people, who went on to fight against lynching, push women's suffrage, and drive the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Russell Contreras, Axios, 24 July 2024
  • In her own right, Jackson became a visible fixture within the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Bev-Freda Jackson, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2023
  • More accurate and complete lessons on slavery were not taught in classrooms until after the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, according to Powers.
    — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Starting around the early 1970s, with the help of legal integration, roller-skating became synonymous with disco, especially among young Black people coming of age in the wake of the core Civil Rights Movement.
    — Maya Eaglin, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In the 20th century, Southern sheriffs’ roles in voter suppression during the Civil Rights Movement are well documented.
    — Emily Farris, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Fans were quick to defend the decision, saying that those expressing furor missed the point of the franchise—which has historically been used as an allegory for the Civil Rights Movement and addressed other social issues.
    — Cailey Gleeson, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The landmark legislation was passed amid the Civil Rights Movement to prohibit racial discrimination in elections.
    — Ashley Paige, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • Their grandparents were traumatized by violent reactions to the Civil Rights Movement.
    — Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 24 May 2024
  • This contradiction was evident during the Civil Rights Movement, said Greenberg.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
  • During the Civil Rights Movement, Epton created a system for dealing with customers who demanded tickets in an all-white seating section despite the speedway never having segregated grandstands.
    — Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 24 May 2024
  • There was a specific, gruesome preoccupation with the sexuality of people of color, and the state made efforts to constrain their intimate activities amid a burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
    — Julia Sonenshein, The New Republic, 27 July 2023
  • Black liberationist theology, which emerged during the Civil Rights Movement, emphasizes that social action on behalf of the Black community is part of the spiritual responsibility of the faithful.
    — Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2021

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