Example sentences for: civil-rights

How can you use “civil-rights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The pop psychology: Middle-aged and elderly blacks, having witnessed the gains of the civil-rights movement, believe in the system.

  • To achieve this feat, they define King as a champion of "colorblind laws," and reduce the civil-rights movement to an effort to end the classification of citizens by race.

  • The Census Bureau's "multiracial" proposal has provoked strong reactions from civil-rights activists who fear that many African Americans will defect to the new category, thus diluting black political power.

  • In the mid-'60s, when the integrationist ideal reached its peak, the black-power wing of the civil-rights movement grew by advocating black self-determination--the establishment of exclusively black schools and a self-sustaining black economy.

  • Reed feels passionately that white evangelicals must atone for their opposition to the civil-rights movement.)


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