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How Fred D. Gray’s time at Case Western Reserve helped shape a civil rights legend
“My objective in coming here was to finish law school in three years, return to Alabama, become a lawyer and destroy everything segregated I could find.”If you think this sounds like the opening line in the next novel by Percival Everett or Colson Whitehead, it would be a good guess, but incorrect…
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March 01, 2013
For Maxwell Mehlman, everything happens for a reason. Take, for example, his entire career. “Everything that has happened to me was part of a sequence of fortuitous events,” Mehlman said. When Mehlman graduated from law school at Yale University, he headed to Washington, D.C., to practice. He…