From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   danny burstein  wrote:   
   > In  gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny   
   McCormack) writes:   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >>>The daughter of Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor and prominent civil   
   >>>rights figure, has died, her family said on Saturday.   
   >   
   >>This wording is very ambiguous.  Was Lisa a former Atlanta mayor and   
   >>prominent civil rights figure or was Andrew?   
   >   
   >>The wording can certainly be taken either way, but the way it is worded, it   
   >>should be Lisa, but I suspect the truth is that it is Andrew.   
   >   
   >>Note that in the old days, it would not be so ambiguous, because everybody   
   >>understood that women didn't become mayors or PCRFs, so everyone would   
   >>understand that those terms had to refer to a man.  Nowadays, however, ...   
   >   
   > "in the old days ... women didn't become ... PCRFs..."   
   >   
   > Claudette Colvin's [a] arrest was back in 1955...   
   >   
   > [a] ntbcw the actress Claudette Colbert...   
   >   
      
   What about Irene Morgan(1917-2007)?...she had her bus-seating rights   
   affirmed by the SCOTUS before either Colvin or Parks were arrested   
   (on state rather than federal issues in their cases).   
      
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