Ms. Thernstrom currently serves as vice chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, General Counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, and Senior Fellow for the Carleson Center for Public Policy.

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But he would leave this world as the leader of a growing civil rights movement and the president of the world-famous Tuskegee Institute.

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Peter Ferrara is director of entitlement and budget policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, formerly serving in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan.

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Peter Ferrara is director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Institute for Policy Innovation, and general counsel of the American Civil Rights Union.

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