On the recordDecember 15, 2009
All of this ongoing work--our civil rights work--is firmly rooted in the human rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Tom Perez
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congress.govTom Perez: “All of this ongoing work--our civil rights work--is firmly rooted in the human rights movement of the 1940s and 1950s.”
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Perez connects civil rights efforts to historical human rights movements.
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