civil-rights movement

See also: civil rights movement

English

Noun

civil-rights movement (plural civil-rights movements)

1. Alternative form of civil rights movement.
   • 1884 March 1, “Civil Rights in Ohio”, in Buffalo Express, Buffalo, N.Y., page 4, column 3:

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

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

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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....

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

     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).

   • 2003 July/August, Howard Youth, “Selections from Futurist bookshelf”, in The Futurist, volume 37, number 4, page S1[1][2], column 3:

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

   • 2010 July 14, Adam Cohen, “Can Animal Rights Go Too Far?”, in Time, retrieved 4 March 2014:

     Then, in the 1970s, animal-liberation activists followed in the footsteps of the civil-rights movement, the women's liberation movement and the gay-rights movement, and argued that "species-ism" was wrong and had to be defeated.

   • 2021 July 20, Lawrence Glickman, “The Three Tropes of White Victimhood”, in The Atlantic‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-20:

     As the civil-rights movement accelerated, claims of “anti-whiteness” emerged again. All manner of supposed provocations—the 1961 documentary Walk in My Shoes, which focused on the lives of Black Americans; the Kennedy administration; the Black Arts Theater of Harlem—were labeled “anti-white and pro-Negro.”