freedom march

American  

Or Freedom March

noun

1. an organized march protesting a government's restriction of or lack of support for civil rights, especially such a march in support of racial integration in the U.S. in the 1960s.

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Other Word Forms

• freedommarcher
  noun

Etymology

Origin of freedom march

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

On Friday, it was unveiled at an invitation-only ceremony in the same place King led 20,000 people on a freedom march more than 50 years ago.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

So, at age 15, I attended that freedom march — the march of A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. — even without my parents’ permission.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2015

For fame and freedom march with you, And right is on your side!

From The New Yorker • Jul. 14, 2015

One of the most exuberant live recordings ever issued, the release was set to tape at the New Nazareth Church in Chicago not long after the Selma freedom march of 1965.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2015

James Meredith, who had become famous for initiating federally backed integration of the University of Mississippi, was making a one-man freedom march across the South.

From The Black Experience in America by Coombs, Norman