How to Use civil rights in a Sentence

civil rights

plural noun
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  • 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
  • Here is a look at the life of civil rights activist Julian Bond.
    — CNN, 29 Aug. 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
  • While they were spared prison terms, Schwimmer and others were fined and stripped of their civil rights.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 19 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • Retired now, Vernon was at the forefront of the civil rights movement.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 29 Oct. 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
  • That to me was a surprising thing, because of course the civil rights movement was going on.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Dec. 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
  • Key forces in and around the Democratic Party, such as labor unions and civil rights groups, didn't like Carter and rallied to Kennedy.
    — Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, ABC News, 30 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • In the years that followed, Emmett’s killing became one of the galvanizing events of the civil rights movement.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years on the federal civil rights charge.
    — Steve Karnowski, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Emmett Till's 1955 lynching helped spark the civil rights movement.
    — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Last February, Richardson filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against local law enforcement alleging a pattern of abuse.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Catlett’s civil rights activism stood at the forefront of her diverse practice, which incorporated printmaking, sculpture, collage, and painting, among other media.
    — Leilah Babirye, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025

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