Josephine Butler was a women's rights crusader who fought to repeal the Acts.

Mr. Gao, 42, is a prominent defense lawyer and human rights crusader who was stripped of his license to practice law late last year.

The civil rights crusaders did in some ways face an environment more conducive to change.

Cochran has another unfortunate quality for a civil rights crusader: a tone-deafness for the pain of those outside his group.

Brown discounted the notion that his father was an early civil rights crusader.

The two Deep South appellate courts, for instance, used to be civil rights crusaders.

And although Mr. James's résumé as a civil rights crusader in the 1960's still carried great weight with today's electorate, its significance may be diminishing.

Foremost among the 1848 declaration signers was Frederick Douglass, the black human rights crusader.

A detailed and finely written portrait of the former slave who became a great orator, civil rights crusader and editor.