Definitions of civil rights worker
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a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
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synonyms:
civil rights activist, civil rights leader
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examples:
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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)
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
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Medgar Wiley Evers
United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)
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James Leonard Farmer
United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
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Jesse Louis Jackson
United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
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Martin Luther King Jr.
United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
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Malcolm Little
militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
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James Howard Meredith
United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
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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)
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Paul Bustill Robeson
United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)
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Roy Wilkins
United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)
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Whitney Moore Young Jr.
United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
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types:
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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
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type of:
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crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer
a disputant who advocates reform
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