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Example sentences for: civil-rights

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The film is set in '63, I guess, before the civil-rights movement kicked into really high gear, and underneath the liberal veneer of many a Hanks film I sense some creepy nostalgia for this simpler time.
3 job at the Justice Department in 1985; and William Lucas, shot down as head of the civil-rights division in 1989.
As a longtime aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, McPherson was an important advocate for the civil-rights movement, a dove on Vietnam, and one of the architects of the War on Poverty.
Civil-rights advocates called for scrutiny of the one-year suspension, but agree that it's OK as long as the abuse that provoked her was gender-neutral.
In hopes of attracting more white votes, the Democratic Party has distanced itself from civil-rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, and from issues like welfare reform and affirmative action.