To examine closely; scrutinize critically: Random House plans a review of its procedures for ''vetting'' or checking a book prior to publication/ The hosts are a carefully vetted collection of bubble brains (1904+) [verb sense fr the close examination of an animal by a veterinarian]
American civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. American civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s.
Rosa Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, a member of the Votersâ League, and actively involved with the Highlander Folk School, an education center for workers' rights and racial equality. She wrote and spoke frequently on civil rights.