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Changes at Civil Rights Panel may show shift in civil rights
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Call & Post
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December 30, 2004
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To advocates for the traditional civil rights movement, President George Bush's decision to replace 25-year-member Mary Frances Berry with Kansas City utilities lawyer Gerald Reynolds as chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission was more than just a Republican president picking a Republican supporter for a key appointment.
According to some civil rights leaders, it reflected a total changing of the guard in the civil rights movement.
Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, was quoted in the New York Times as saying that Reynolds' appointment as chair "effectively brings to an end the civil rights commission."
Peter Kirsanow, a colleague of Reynolds ...
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