civil rights activist
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1. a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups (noun.person)
| hyponym | : | freedom rider, |
| definition | : | one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bond, julian bond, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | farmer, james leonard farmer, |
| definition | : | United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | jackson, jesse jackson, jesse louis jackson, |
| definition | : | United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | james howard meredith, james meredith, meredith, |
| definition | : | United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | parks, rosa parks, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | roy wilkins, wilkins, |
| definition | : | United States civil rights leader (1901-1981) (noun.person) |
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