Definition of "civil rights movement" []

• 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 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "“The civil rights movement was primarily a religious movement,” adds the historian Wilson Fallin in the same film, “a movement of people who believed in God and who were convinced that God would help them overcome segregation.”"
• "I saw the civil rights movement as an extension of the Church in a sense,"
• "I said, For Mr. Sammy Davis Jr., the man who birthed the civil rights movement almost single-handedly, to call me a true original, is to me the greatest moment in my life as a Jew."