And it's ironic that on a night when the elder civil rights movement was essentially achieved, the new civil rights movement to give equal protection under the law to gays and lesbians was broken over the knee of bigotry.
| Aug. 26 at 3: In "Mahler and Friends: Unfinished Business," the Amernet String Quartet, a fresh and engaging American group, offers performances of the young Mahler's one-movement Piano Quartet, the elder Grieg's autumnal, two-movement Second Quartet, and Brahms's Piano Quintet, that great summer standby; the pianist James Tocco is its guest.
As an elder stateswoman of the movement, she wrote a memoir to honor "unsung foot soldiers".
Some of the movement's elder statesmen, such as William Du Bois, settled in Ghana out of solidarity with the new nation.
But he also had a sense that, with Buckley's passing, he now became the movement's elder statesman.
Grandma Techno – AKA Patricia Lay-Dorsey – is a fixture at Movement, an elder electronic music fan who has attended the festival since its 2000 inauguration.
The President's Challenge will champion a national movement of elder volunteerism.
But in 1963, Randolph, as the elder statesman of the movement, pulled together the leaders of the major civil-rights, labor, and liberal religious organizations and laid out his plan for a march on Washington.
In thinking about Malcolm, the old philosophical question came to mind: "When a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound if no one is there to hear it?" Death took him like the felling of an ancient oak tree, but for Malcolm, like so many elders in the movement, the philosophical question about hearing a tree falling is the wrong question.
"Zammar was an elder statesman of the mujahedeen movement, who fought in Afghanistan and the Balkans," a senior German intelligence official said today.
