Definition of "civil rights leader" [civil rights leader]
A leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups(noun)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "civil rights leader" in a sentence
"In one of his both bizarre and typical moments of self-discovery, Norman Mailer in his 1968 book Miami and the Siege of Chicago — one of three Mailer books published that year — described waiting for a Ralph Abernathy press conference for which the civil rights leader was forty minutes late."