Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nature of advocacy has been evolving in Cambridge over the past 30 years. The issues are changing, and you don't have great unifying issues like Vietnam or Civil Rights," he says...
Higginbotham, who in 1964 became America's third black federal judge and later became the first black trustee of Yale University and chief judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, was known nationally as an outspoken champion of civil rights...
...President Clinton awarded Higginbotham the Presidential Medal of freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. That year Clinton also named Higginbotham Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights...
Rudenstine lauded Higginbotham's strength and conviction in fighting for civil rights...
Higginbotham received acclaim for hismulti-volume series of books titled Race andthe American Legal Process. He held honorarydegrees from over 60 institutions, and earlierthis year received the Roger Baldwin Award of theAmerican Civil Liberties Union...