civil rights movement

political movement which seeks equal rights for all citizens (often referring to the movement in the 1950's and 1960's in the United States that fought for equal rights for African Americans)

Historically, various popular movements struggling for civil rights, human rights and social justice since the Second World War have become known as the civil rights movement, most famously the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which struggled for equal rights for African-Americans. The process of moving toward equality under the law was long and tenuous in many countries, and most of these movements did not achieve or fully achieve their objectives. In their later years, some of the movements fractured and certain factions took a sharp turn to the radical left, and then lost popularity. The struggles of these movements took place during a postwar period of increasing worldwide civil unrest and popular rebellion, and they coincided with the struggle against colonialism in colonies in Africa and Asia, which resulted in decolonization, and with political opposition by emerging student movements.
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Noun
1. movement in the United States beginning in the 1960s and led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens
(hypernym) movement, social movement, front