How to Use civil rights in a Sentence

civil rights

plural noun
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  • Retired now, Vernon was at the forefront of the civil rights movement.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Till’s brutal 1955 murder in the Jim Crow South helped spark the civil rights movement.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
  • There are fundamental values on the line, even beyond democracy — women’s rights, civil rights, the safety of immigrants.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
  • So within that, the ward of the court loses all their civil rights.
    — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The civil rights laws of the 1960s opened up voting again for Tennesseans.
    — Bianca Fortis, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The civil rights charge against Haley carries up to 10 years.
    — Adrian Sainz, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The blowback comes from some customers, a group of Democrats in Congress and civil rights groups.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The politics of the civil rights movement had bubbled up into the charts.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Days of civil rights protests followed locally and around the world.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The White River:Cleanup follows decades of civil rights abuses.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But in the summer of 1967, the civil rights group used its newsletter to weigh in on a different topic.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • He is considered as much a sports legend as a civil rights icon.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Since then, Afghans have faced rising poverty and a crackdown on civil rights.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • An openly gay Black man did not easily fit in — even in the heart of a movement for civil rights and justice.
    — Valerie Wu, Variety, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Wade Hammond, a prominent civil rights leader in Phoenix, also owned the home for a time.
    — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The shift from the ’60s to the ’70s ushered in social change, with the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War influencing filmmaking.
    — Les Borsai, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Five of the eight surviving civil rights leaders attended the event.
    — Rikki Klaus, CNN, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader and organizer of the March on Washington, is the focus of a new biopic.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The Pride flag is widely seen as a symbol of civil rights and is flown by many government agencies across the United States.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Paul McCartney wrote the song in the summer of 1968, inspired by the American civil rights movement.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And then on top of everything else, at the precipice of what looked to be forward momentum for the civil rights movement, Dr. King was murdered here.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The move came over the protests of privacy watchdogs and civil rights advocates, who had sought an outright ban.
    — Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Turner is the son of civil rights activist Albert Turner Sr.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Biden has made no secret of his admiration for Chavez — there is a bust of the civil rights leader behind his desk in the Oval Office.
    — Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Eig’s book has been called the definitive biography of the late civil rights icon.
    — Variety, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The injury to his neck and spine left Cox paralyzed from the chest down, according to civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
    — Michelle Watson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The strike and national grape boycott evolved into a civil rights movement.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Leila has been in the crosshairs of Iran’s government for years due to her work as a civil rights activist and grassroots organizer.
    — Hannah Ritchie, CNN, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The numbers continued to grow, which is one of the reasons Democrats passed laws to restrict voting, including the Jim Crow laws that set back civil rights in the South for many decades.
    — WSJ, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The jury deadlocked on the charge of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Dec. 2022

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