Meaning of civil-rights movement | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“A late despatch from Cleveland announces that “a gigantic civil-rights movement has been started” throughout that State.”

“But for the big New England vote, with Pennsylvania and New York together giving the civil-rights movement 172 votes, nearly one fourth of the affirmative ballot, Mr. Truman would have had absolutely nothing for which to be gratified in regard to his shameful maneuver to gain some racial political support in crucial areas at the expense of the genuine constitutional Democratic Southland.”

“It comes from a committee of which Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the leader of the civil-rights movement in the 1948 convention, is the chairman.”

“Galston argues that the current “religious wars” probably had their origins in the civil-rights movement, which launched an era disruptive to “the longstanding balance between juridical liberal principles and a complex of traditional moral beliefs, many of which rested on religious foundations....”

“It does mean that we are more of a stripped-down generation: no big civil-rights movements for us, please (a warning to church liberals that we are skeptical that big change is around the corner, or even possible).”

“Social action such as civil-rights movements alter the fabric of society, but their success or failure is not easily predicted.”

“Then, in the 1970s, animal-liberation activists followed in the footsteps of the civil-rights movement, the women's liberation movement and the gay-rights movement, and argued that "species-ism" was wrong and had to be defeated.”

“As the civil-rights movement accelerated, claims of “anti-whiteness” emerged again. All manner of supposed provocations—the 1961 documentary Walk in My Shoes, which focused on the lives of Black Americans; the Kennedy administration; the Black Arts Theater of Harlem—were labeled “anti-white and pro-Negro.””

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