CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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