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civil rights movements

civil rights movements is the plural of civil rights movement.

Meaning of civil rights movement

Noun

civil rights movement (plural civil rights movements)

  1. Any of a number of movements against systemic oppression in various different countries, but especially
  2. (US, historical) A social and political movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968 that aimed to end racial segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement.

Questions about civil rights movements

What is civil rights movements the plural of?
Civil rights movements is the plural of civil rights movement.

Words near civil rights movements in the dictionary

  1. civil right
  2. civil rightist
  3. civil rightists
  4. civil rights
  5. civil rights movement
  6. civil rights movements
  7. civil servant
  8. civil servants
  9. civil service
  10. civil services
  11. civil societies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil rights movements (page history and authors); civil rights movement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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