Civil Rights Activist (Noun)
Meaning
A leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Medgar Evers was a prominent civil rights activist who fought for racial equality in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s.
- As a civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr led marches, demonstrations, and delivered speeches to advocate for the end of racial segregation.
- The civil rights activist was arrested multiple times for participating in sit-ins, freedom rides, and other forms of nonviolent civil disobedience.
- Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- Thurgood Marshall was a renowned civil rights activist and lawyer who argued several landmark cases before the US Supreme Court, including Brown v Board of Education.