Civil Rights After Rosa Parks

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Listen Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 at 12:06 p.m. in Law, Politics

With the death of Rosa Parks, Republican and Democratic leaders celebrated the legacy of a civil rights trailblazer. But a huge gulf exists across the political spectrum on a number of contentious issues. Join Kojo for a look at competing visions of civil rights activism in 21st century America.

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Guests

Gerald Reynolds

Chair (R), United States Commission on Civil Rights; also former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights

William Taylor

Chair, Citizens Commission on Civil Rights; Vice Chair, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; and author “The Passion of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement”

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