WordNet
n. a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups [syn: civil rights leader, civil rights worker]
Usage examples of "civil rights activist".
With her sunglasses now in place against the hot summer sun, her lips red with a touch of lipstick, it was hard not to notice that this tough lawmaker and civil rights activist was a very beautiful woman.
This must be what it felt like to have been a Japanese-American during World War II, she thought, to have been a civil rights activist in Mississippi in the sixties.
The Reverend Ebenezer Clay, an old-time civil rights activist and leader.
She was a friend of the internationally famous singer, actor, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson and his wife Eslande.
The credentials committee, including Arkansas congressman David Pryor, voted to accept the Mississippi challenge delegation led by civil rights activist Aaron Henry.
Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist, made a point about this back in the early 1960s, when he was asked about why black kids were stealing cars.
James Meredith, civil rights activist, was wounded by gunfire during a march in Mississippi.
Bayard Ruston, 85, political philosopher and civil rights activist.
Francis of Assisi, Albert Schweitzer, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King (he became a civil rights activist at age 26!
But I did speak to the civil rights activist, Reverend Solstice, and do you know what he told me?