Word: durr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arrested on a Thursday; bail was posted by Clifford Durr, the white lawyer whose wife had employed Parks as a seamstress. That evening, after talking it over with her mother and husband, Rosa Parks agreed to challenge the constitutionality of Montgomery's segregation laws. During a midnight meeting of the Women's Political Council, 35,000 handbills were mimeographed for distribution to all black schools the next morning. The message was simple...
...underwear, the charges against the boys were dropped, and DNA tests linked the crime to a convicted sex offender who faces three other charges of sexual assault committed within blocks of where Harris' body was found. Still, it wasn't until last week that Cook County prosecutors charged Floyd Durr, 30, with Harris' murder...
Crawford is worried that her efforts to get her grandson back on track could be hampered if the state calls him as a witness against Durr. And she is disappointed at the chill that remains between her family and that of Ryan Harris'. "It doesn't make any sense," Crawford says. "When this case is over, both of us will be right back here in the ghetto...
...spectrum of multiracial families is broad but embraces some common issues. For example, parents can't be as arbitrary in their choices of neighborhoods, schools, play groups or other social situations when they have a mixed household. "For a child, it's easier to blend," says Mary Durr, an executive with the Adoption Services Information Agency in Washington. She and other experts suggest searching out racially diverse communities--much as Susan Weiss, a Chicago social worker, had to do after acknowledging the negative racial remarks to which her adopted daughters, Indian-born Cathryn, 12, and Peruvian-born Amanda, 7, were...
...wife Lucy Durr Hackney served on the Children's Defense Fund with the First Lady and, like her is a lawyer-advocate for children. Washington insiders link Hackney's appointment to the Lucy-Hillary connection. Indeed, the First Lady may be Hackney's most unshakable asset. Amid the "water buffalo" controversy, Hillary Rodham Clinton journeyed to Philadelphia to deliver the commencement address at Penn...