civil rights movement

1. 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

   Broadermovement

Questions about civil rights movement

What does civil rights movement mean?

civil rights movement means "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".

Is civil rights movement a common word?

civil rights movement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.