| has gloss | (noun) a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups
civil rights activist, civil rights leader, civil rights worker |
| lexicalization | eng: civil rights activist |
| lexicalization | eng: civil rights leader |
| lexicalization | eng: civil rights worker |
| subclass of | (noun) a disputant who advocates reform
reformer, reformist, crusader, meliorist, social reformer |
| has subclass | (noun) one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
freedom rider |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader who was elected to the legislature in Georgia but was barred from taking his seat because he opposed the Vietnam War (born 1940)
Bond, Julian Bond |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)
Medgar Evers, Medgar Wiley Evers, Evers |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920)
Farmer, James Leonard Farmer |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941)
Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson |
| has instance | (noun) United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
King, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr. |
| has instance | (noun) militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
Malcolm X, Malcolm Little |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
Meredith, James Howard Meredith, James Meredith |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)
Rosa Parks, Parks |
| has instance | (noun) United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976)
Paul Robeson, Paul Bustill Robeson, Robeson |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader (1901-1981)
Wilkins, Roy Wilkins |
| has instance | (noun) United States civil rights leader (1921-1971)
Young, Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr. |