Word: civil
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...tribute to civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., several of their friends and colleagues reflected on the 45th anniversary of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday...
...panelists, all civil rights leaders themselves, emphasized the individual courage it took to get the civil rights movement going and propel it to fruition...
Fred Gray, the attorney who defended Rosa Parks in the Alabama courts, said it was important not to forget that many unsung actors also contributed to the civil rights movement...
...Actions such as hers paved the way," Gray said. "The civil rights movement did not happen by chance. It took brave and absolutely committed people to see it through...
Despite the many accomplishments of the civil rights movement, several of the panelists used the words, "We still have a long way to go" at various points during each presentation...