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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...interview. Two of those “who have come before,” Sterling said, were the dinner’s eponyms: G. Lewis Ruffin, the first black graduate of Harvard Law School, and his wife Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin,an abolitionist and women’s suffragist. “I am excited, honored, but also deeply humbled to receive this award,” Sterling said in the interview. “I think back to the pioneers who have come before me, and realize how much greater this moment...

Author: By Manning Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BPLA Honorees Discuss Social Activism | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...hangs on every word of the first female U.S. Attorney General. Whoever the first female U.S. President is, Reno says, she will listen more closely to "all Americans, like the single mother who feels alone and frustrated." But then Reno says something that leaves the N.O.W. women, dressed in suffragist purple, looking puzzled. She talks about "the young white man who wants to be an FBI agent but feels he doesn't have a chance because of affirmative action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Reno | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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