civil-rights movement

plural civil-rights movements

1. alternativeAlternative form of civil rights movement.

   A late despatch from Cleveland announces that “a gigantic civil-rights movement has been started” throughout that State.

   1884 March 1, “Civil Rights in Ohio”, in Buffalo Express, Buffalo, N.Y., page 4, column 3

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   But for the big New England vote, with Pennsylvania and New York together giving the civil-rights movement 172 votes, nearly one fourth of the affirmative ballot, Mr. Truman would have had absolutely nothing for which to be gratified in regard to his shameful maneuver to gain some racial political support in crucial areas at the expense of the genuine constitutional Democratic Southland.

   1948 July 22, “No Cause for Confidence”, in Shreveport Journal, page eight A, column 2

   It comes from a committee of which Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the leader of the civil-rights movement in the 1948 convention, is the chairman.

   1952 July 23, Walter Lippmann, “Importance: Of Battle Doubted; Genuine Issue Lacking, Observer Thinks; Split Between North, South Is More Apparent Than Real, He Adds”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 112th year, number 104, page 7A, column 4

   Galston argues that the current “religious wars” probably had their origins in the civil-rights movement, which launched an era disruptive to “the longstanding balance between juridical liberal principles and a complex of traditional moral beliefs, many of which rested on religious foundations....

   1986 December 24, David Broder, “Churches concept of faith has a place in strengthening world democracies”, in The New Mexican, Santa Fe, N.M., page A-5

   It does mean that we are more of a stripped-down generation: no big civil-rights movements for us, please (a warning to church liberals that we are skeptical that big change is around the corner, or even possible).

   1999 April, Tom Beaudoin, “Irreverently yours: A message from Generation X”, in U.S. Catholic, volume 64, number 4, Claretians, pages 10–15

   Social action such as civil-rights movements alter the fabric of society, but their success or failure is not easily predicted.

   2003 July/August, Howard Youth, “Selections from Futurist bookshelf”, in The Futurist, volume 37, number 4, page S1https://books.google.com/books?id=PQhmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22civil-rights+movements%22https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Selections+from+futurist+bookshelf-a0103382471, column 3