How to Use civil rights in a Sentence

civil rights

plural noun
  • Not one civil rights or church group was there.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Siegel is a civil rights lawyer and a Knicks fan.
    — Norman Siegel, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This is rarely framed as a civil rights issue.
    — Deborah Archer, Time, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The civil rights groups say that has not happened.
    — Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Lemon pleaded not guilty to civil rights charges.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • What did the civil rights movement do?
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Mass civil rights protests in major cities.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Hogshead is also a civil rights lawyer.
    — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
  • Hogshead is also a civil rights lawyer.
    — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • The marchers say the fight for civil rights hasn’t changed, either.
    — Sarah Clifton, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • The civil rights leader died this week at the age of 84.
    — Matt Brown, Arkansas Online, 21 Feb. 2026
  • The civil rights leader died this week at the age of 84.
    — CBS News, 20 Feb. 2026
  • So within that, the ward of the court loses all their civil rights.
    — Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 22 Feb. 2024
  • But civil rights groups have sued in two cases that the judge combined.
    — Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • As the old vanguard of civil rights leaders pass, who will fill the void?
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 6 Mar. 2026
  • King’s death at age 39 marked a turning point in the civil rights era.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Israeli Arabs have full civil rights.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 June 2026
  • The civil rights movement was at a crossroads.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • He is considered as much a sports legend as a civil rights icon.
    — Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 9 Aug. 2024
  • But the manner of this civil rights giant quickly put me at ease.
    — Francine Knowles, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The question of where civil rights and civil service go from here?
    — Natalie McMillan, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Of the civil rights lions, Young is one of the few who have gotten close.
    — Ernie Suggs, ajc, 11 Mar. 2022
  • About stripping away civil rights, human rights.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Attacks on our freedom of speech, our civil rights, our freedom to vote.
    — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The videos might prompt them to discuss topics like the civil rights movement.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Days of civil rights protests followed locally and around the world.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Olympian runner Wilma Rudolph, who won three golds and fought hard for civil rights.
    — Abigail Wise, Outside, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Legal progress in civil rights was met with creative workarounds.
    — Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Always, amidst civil rights news, there was footage of Vietnam.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • When the big push here in the United States was around civil rights, that was a big thing.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025

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