civil rights worker

Other forms: civil rights workers

Definitions of civil rights worker

1. noun

   a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
   synonyms: civil rights activist, civil rights leader

   examples:

   Julian Bond

   United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)

   William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

   United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)

   Medgar Wiley Evers

   United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)

   James Leonard Farmer

   United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)

   Jesse Louis Jackson

   United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)

   Martin Luther King Jr.

   United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)

   Malcolm Little

   militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)

   James Howard Meredith

   United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)

   Rosa Parks

   United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)

   Paul Bustill Robeson

   United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)

   Roy Wilkins

   United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)

   Whitney Moore Young Jr.

   United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)

   types:

   freedom rider

   one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation

   type of:

   crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer

   a person or group who pushes to improve an institution or system by changing it