Word: graying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...Gray cited his first case, in which he defended a 15-year-old girl who had refused to give up her seat on a bus shortly before Parks' arrest...
...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...
...most significant message of the day may have been put forward by the lead Temptation, the natty, gray-maned Barry Richard. (Think of Baker as the band's manager.) Amid the legalese about the tortuous contest-phase give-and-take between the legal teams, Richard emerged with a plea very similar to Al Gore's: Be patient, because this is going to take a while...
Bush might turn a second Cabinet post over to a Democrat: The Education Department could go to Jim Hunt of North Carolina or Bill Gray, the head of the United Negro College Fund, a longtime Bush family charity. Gray would be an intriguing choice, and mean that Bush would have at least three African Americans in his Cabinet...