Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun civil_rights_movement

1 sense of civil rights movement

Sense 1
Civil Rights movement -- (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)
       => movement, social movement, front -- (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front")