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Fred Gray talk, visit rescheduled

Renowned civil rights attorney Fred Gray will deliver two public talks and participate in a book signing at Cornell on Feb. 20 and 21. Gray's original visit, scheduled for January, was cancelled due to bad weather that affected airports in the southeastern United States.
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Gray, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants, also will give a talk at the Beverly J. Martin School in downtown Ithaca. The following events are free and open to the public:

  • "Learning to Live With Life's Ups and Downs," Sunday, Feb. 20, at 11 a.m. in Sage Chapel;
  • "Civil Rights: Past, Present and Future," Sunday, Feb. 20, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Beverly J. Martin School gymnasium, reception to follow;
  • "Why Do You Want to Be a Lawyer?" Monday, Feb. 21, at 12:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Auditorium; and
  • A book signing, where Gray will sign his two books, The Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1995) and Bus Ride to Justice (1998), on Monday, Feb. 21, from 11 a.m. to noon at the Cornell Campus Store.

    For more information about Gray and a list of his most notable cases, visit http://www.fredgray.net/index.html.

    February 10, 2005

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