CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Civil Rights movement mean? 

• CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens

  Familiarity information: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Civil Rights movement" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)