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Noun: Civil Rights movement
  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

Derived forms: Civil Rights movements

Type of: front, movement, social movement

Encyclopedia: Civil Rights movement

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