English > civil rights leader: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups. |
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| Synonyms | civil rights worker, civil rights activist |
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| Instances | Bond, 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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| Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois | United States civil rights leader and political / political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963) |
| Evers, Medgar Evers, Medgar Wiley Evers | United States civil rights worker in Mississippi |
| Farmer, James Leonard Farmer | United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) |
| Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson | United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) |
| King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr. | United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation / segregation of Blacks (1929-1968) |
| Malcolm X, Malcolm Little | militant civil rights leader (1925-1965) |
| Meredith, James Meredith, James Howard Meredith | United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) |
| Parks, Rosa Parks | United States civil rights leader who refused / 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) |
| Robeson, Paul Robeson, Paul Bustill Robeson | United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism / socialism (1898-1976) |
| Wilkins, Roy Wilkins | United States civil rights leader (1901-1981) |
| Young, Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr. | United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) |
| Narrower | 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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| Broader | reformer, reformist, crusader, social reformer, meliorist | A disputant who advocates reform |
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