Definitions for civil-rights

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civil-rights civil rights

Civil-Rights is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 298 anagrams from letters in civil-rights (-cghiiilrstv).

Definitions for civil-rights

plural noun

1. rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and certain Congressional acts, especially as applied to an individual or a minority group.
2. the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks.

Origin of civil-rights

First recorded in 1715-25

Examples for civil-rights

For Dovgan, there was no question of waiting around for a system that would protect human and civil rights.

But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.

These natural rights are the foundation of all their civil rights.

Is it because he thinks it intolerable that a negro should have civil rights?

The civil rights people didn't have a damn thing to do with it.

But he also reminded the younger members of the crowd of the civil rights movement of the last century.

Finally, we have a major film on civil rights in which African Americans are the heroes in their own story.

Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the civil rights drama Selma.

In this the influence of the civil rights spokesmen was paramount.

Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it.