CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does civil rights worker mean? 

• CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER (noun)
  The noun CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER has 1 sense:

1. a leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups

  Familiarity information: CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIVIL RIGHTS WORKER (noun)

Meaning:

A leader of the political movement dedicated to securing equal opportunity for members of minority groups

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

civil rights activist; civil rights leader; civil rights worker

Hypernyms ("civil rights worker" is a kind of...):

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil rights worker"):

freedom rider (one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation)

Instance hyponyms:

Roy Wilkins; Wilkins (United States civil rights leader (1901-1981))

Paul Bustill Robeson; Paul Robeson; Robeson (United States bass singer and an outspoken critic of racism and proponent of socialism (1898-1976))

Parks; Rosa Parks (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))

James Howard Meredith; James Meredith; Meredith (United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933))

Malcolm Little; Malcolm X (militant civil rights leader (1925-1965))

King; Martin Luther King; Martin Luther King Jr. (United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968))

Jackson; Jesse Jackson; Jesse Louis Jackson (United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941))

Farmer; James Leonard Farmer (United States civil rights leader who in 1942 founded the Congress of Racial Equality (born in 1920))

Evers; Medgar Evers; Medgar Wiley Evers (United States civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963))

Du Bois; W. E. B. Du Bois; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963))

Bond; Julian Bond (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))

Whitney Moore Young Jr.; Whitney Young; Young (United States civil rights leader (1921-1971))