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Clifford Durr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Durr was therefore ready in December, 1955, when police arrested Rosa Parks for refusing to give her seat to a white man. Durr called the jail when authorities refused to tell Nixon what the dharges against Parks were and he and his wife accompanied Nixon to the jail when Nixon bailed her out. Durr resigned from the FCC in 1948 after dissenting from its adoption of a loyalty oath demanded by the Truman administration. Durr and Gray represented Parks in her criminal appeals in state court, while Gray took on the federal court litigation challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clifford_Durr

AUM - Auburn University Montgomery Clifford Durr was born and raised in Montgomery and Virginia Foster Durr in Birmingham. In December 1955, Virginia and Clifford Durr bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she was arrested in Montgomery for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on one of the segregated buses. Clifford Durr drafted a petition to the Court, which Fred Gray filed. www.aum.edu /Administration/University_Relations/Campus_Events/Durr_Lecture/index.cfm?id=4543

Durr Lecture Series Brightens City’s Intellectual Climate Durr as a young man in Chicago, during one of her crusades against the poll tax. Clifford Durr told him he was the first person to speak to them all day. He said that the FBI was at the Durr’s house nearly as often as the postman. www.majorcox.com /columns/durr-lec.htm

Tolerance.org She and husband Clifford Durr, a Montgomery attorney who aided in the case that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling barring segregation on Montgomery's buses, worked side by side as crusaders for civil rights at a time when it was unpopular for Southern whites to do so. Durr perhaps is best known as the white woman who helped bail Rosa Parks out of jail after the Montgomery seamstress' arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. In 1985, Durr published her autobiography, the acclaimed "Outside the Magic Circle." Until her death in February 1999, she remained a tireless advocate for equality. www.tolerance.org /news/article_print.jsp?id=948

Person of the Week: Virginia Durr In December, 1955, Virginia and Clifford Durr bailed seamstress Rosa Parks out of jail after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on one of the city's segregated buses. Clifford Durr accepted an assignment, assisting President Roosevelt with the reopening of banks closed by the Depression. Nevertheless, the Durrs were not deterred from their efforts to erode institutionalized racism. www.wellesley.edu /Anniversary/durr.html

Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement —  Douglas A. Hedin After Clifford Durr died, I wrote to his wife and told her how much I remembered and had been influenced by my work for the "Inc Fund" as well as by the time, albeit short, I had spent with her family that summer. Clifford Durr was one of the few lawyers who did try to do this, and his law practice ended up being nothing." Jack Bass, Taming the Storm 128 (Doubleday 1993). Born in 1899 to a prominent Montgomery family, Clifford Durr held all the racial and class prejudices of his time, and none were shaken by college, law school or two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, England. www.crmvet.org /vet/hedin.htm

glossary_html.html Clifford Durr and his wife, Virginia, were ostracized by a large segment of white society in Alabama for their work on behalf of civil rights. Durr assisted in challenging the city of Montgomery when he and Rosa Parks's attorney, Fred Gray, formed the case for Parks who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. In December 1955, Virginia and Clifford Durr bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on one of the city's segregated buses. www.kidsnet.org /cbs/rosaparks/glossary/glossary_html.html

THISDAYonline Durr, a member of her country's Fed Cup team in the 1960s and 70s and team captain in 1996, was known for her unorthodox grips and accurate ground strokes. Francoise "Frankie" Durr of France, American Nancy Richey and Brian Tobin of Australia also will be honored, International Tennis Hall of Fame president Tony Trabert announced Tuesday. In 1967, Durr won the French Open women's singles - the last French woman to triumph in her native land until Mary Pierce in 2000. www.thisdayonline.com /archive/2003/02/01/20030201news27.html   (320 words)

Collected Resources for Leaving Eden: The Long Journey of Cliff and Virginia Durr Since Clifford Durr was one of FCC Chairman Fly’s most loyal supporters, the collection also highlights Durr’s role as a FCC commissioner, the political and philosophical beliefs that he held, and his confrontations with the FBI. Durr, she questions his defense of the suppression of civil rights and civil liberties in the Soviet Union, while promoting civil rights and civil liberties causes within the United States. Morgan, a friend of Virginia Durr, allegedly committed suicide because of the social ostracism and harassment that she faced due to her support of the bus boycott and civil rights in Montgomery. www.aptv.org /LeavingEden/research.html   (320 words)

salmond.htm Clifford Durr's ability to push forward in the legal battle for civil rights was aided substantially by financial support from liberal philanthropists throughout the country, perhaps none of which was more important to the Durr's personally than that provided by Jessica Mitford. Durr, he notes, not only defended those who had been falsely accused, but unlike other civil liberties lawyers of this period also defended individuals who actually were or had been members of the Communist Party as well as those in close association with those ideals. Clifford Durr's law office as well as the Durr's home became a haven for many of the prominent and those not so noted who came to aid the South and the country through this transition. www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/salmond.htm   (320 words)

Vernon Johns 22 Life in Montgomery Virginia Durr (1985: 243 and 251) wrote that Cliff was brought up to believe that a Southern gentleman never took advantage of a black man. The black man had his place and the white man had his place. Clifford Durr moved to Birmingham about 1924 and got a job with Martin, Thompson, and Stern, the firm that represented the Alabama Power Company. Foster's daughter, Virginia Foster, married Clifford Durr in 1926. members.aol.com /tcal001/vjmontlf.html   (320 words)

What others have said about the Durrs Durr was an implausible source if not preposterous source of information, for he is as hipped on race-mixing as the cranks who oppose fluoride in the water. Clifford Durr when I was in Washington and she was devoted to progress in this country. Durr is intellectually gifted, but he is crudely subjective in his viewpoints. www.aptv.org /LeavingEden/quotes.html   (320 words)

Review of Virginia Foster Durr's autobiography Their philosophical differences did not impede the Durrs' mutual respect, because the results were the same: the two of them were the locally vilified champions in long battles from the New Deal through the arrival of the Freedom Riders. Virginia Durr did not write the autobiography so aptly called ''Outside the Magic Circle.'' She spoke it, over the course of two years, in a series of interviews for such invaluable collections as those of the oral history programs at Columbia University and the University of North Carolina. Durr's true voice than a written memoir might have been. www.itri.brighton.ac.uk /~Christy.Doran/Wellesley/Alum/durr.html   (320 words)

African American World . History . My Story PBS Durr's wife insisted on going too, because she and I were good friends. Durr called the jail, and they told him that I was there. Durr before he could come get me. Mr. www.pbs.org /wnet/aaworld/history/spotlight_december2.html   (320 words)

5025B.TXT Durr warned Gray to be sure of his plaintiffs, saying that if the white authorities could bring enough pressure to make a plaintiff back out of a suit, they could then bring criminal prosecution against Gray himself on the obscure charge of "barratry," or false legal representation. Clifford Durr, for his part, was a grim harbinger to white Southern liberals on the race issue. Durr promised to find out what he could from the jail, and soon called back with a report: Rosa Parks was charged with violating the Alabama bus segrega- tion laws. spot.colorado.edu /~wehr/5025B.TXT   (320 words)

INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME ANNOUNCES 2003 ENSHRINEMENT BALLOT Durr was an integral member of France's Fed Cup teams (1963-'66, 1971-'72, 1977-'79), and was Team Captain in 1996. In 1988 she was a recipient of the WTA Honorary Membership Award and in 1993 Durr was appointed the first Director of Women's Tennis at the French Tennis Federation. Joining Becker on the ballot are Francoise "Frankie" Durr of France, Nancy Richey of the United States, Gianni Clerici of Italy, and Brian Tobin of Australia. www.tennisfame.com /PressCenter/2003Ballot.html   (1545 words)

Archives Durr, 52 years, received the Trophy of the Excellence of Fed Cup, awarded collectively by the international Union of tennis and the Hall of Fame of the tennis. PARIS (AP) - The ancient(former) champion of tennis Françoise Durr, player to the splendidly eccentric, but tactically cunning technique in devil and very sticker, was honored on Sunday on the exchange of Roland-Garros before the second day of finale of Fed Cup setting France in Russia. Françoise Durr was a captain of the three-coloured team in 1996. nouvelobs.reverso.net/url/obsResult.asp?directions=65544&template=Default&autotranslate=1&url=http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/sport/20050918.FAP2907.html   (221 words)

Daily Excelsior.........state Durr said she was happy to see pierce had repaired her often stormy relationship with the parisian crowd, who had previously regarded her as an inconsistent Diva. French legend Francoise Durr said she was overjoyed that Mary Pierce had finally ended a 33-year drought for the host nation by lifting the women’s singles title at the French Open. Durr said the game has changed beyond all recognition since her day - noting with amusement that whereas Pierce took home some 600,000 dollars for her title win, she got a 200 dollar voucher to exchange for goods at a sports shop. www.dailyexcelsior.com /00june12/sports.htm   (2915 words)

ABC Sport - Tennis- Becker, Tobin, Durr inducted to Tennis Hall of Fame Durr and Richey were enshrined in the master player category and Tobin was inducted as a contributor. Francoise "Frankie" Durr of France, American Nancy Richey and Brian Tobin of Australia entered the Hall with the 35-year-old Becker. A member of France's Fed Cup team in the 1960s and 70s and the team captain in 1996, Durr was known for her unorthodox grips and accurate ground strokes. www.abc.net.au /sport/content/s900875.htm   (563 words)

The Crimson White Online - Durr is the wife of 1998 Hall of Fame inductee Clifford Durr. Durr is the only woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year. The 2002 inductees will be Gould Beech, Hugo Black, Edwin Bridges, Neil Davis, Virginia Durr and Fred Shuttlesworth. www.cw.ua.edu /vnews/display.v?TARGET=printable&article_id=3db76cb27e5e2   (563 words)

A Birthday Tribute to Virginia Foster Durr Virginia Durr went to Washington in 1933 as the wife of Clifford Durr. Dressed in a pink dress and sitting in the white-wicker chair shown in the photograph that accompanied the 700 birthday party invitations, Virginia Durr shook the hands, kissed the cheeks or hugged the necks of each of the guests, all of whom she knew personally. Studs Terkel characterized Virginia Foster Durr in the introduction to her autobiography, Outside The Magic Circle, as a "well brought-up Southern white woman" who stepped outside the magic circle, abandoned privilege, and challenged the traditional Southern way of life. www.majorcox.com /columns/durr-1.htm   (563 words)

HR 466 - Durr, Virginia Foster; condolences - Fulltext Durr died at the age of 95 years and is survived by her four daughters, Ann Lyon, Lucy Hackney, Tilla Durr, and Lulah Colan, 11 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Durr belonged to a lobbying group that tried without success to outlaw poll taxes and increase black voter registration in the South; and WHEREAS, she was a personal friend of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the sister-in-law of the late Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black; and -1- LC 19 4263 WHEREAS, Mrs. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the family of Virginia Foster Durr. www.legis.state.ga.us /legis/1999_00/leg/fulltext/hr466.htm   (563 words)

content Clifford Durr, a white lawyer, agreed to represent Parks and the couple accompanied Nixon to the Montgomery jail. Clifford Durr arranged for bail, which was paid by Nixon because he owned property, and the Durrs did not. 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man. That evening, civil rights activist E.D. Nixon called Clifford and Virginia Durr, seeking their help for Parks. www.montgomeryadvertiser.com /specialreports/rosa/timeline.html   (563 words)

Clamor Magazine :: issue 25 :: feature Durr, what impelled you to ignore the Senator the way you did?” And she says “Well, I think that man is just as common as pig tracks.” And they start laughing, and then she sighs, she was very colorful, and says “Ah, I guess I'm just an old fashioned Southern snob. Her husband, Clifford Durr, was a member of the Federal Communications Commission under Roosevelt. Their names are Clifford and Virginia Durr, both long since dead. www.clamormagazine.org /issues/25/feature2.shtml   (563 words)

hearts Durr, who watched Pierce follow in her footsteps at Roland Garros on Saturday, reminisced about the good old days. When Durr won the French Open in 1967, there was less fuss, less money and less pressure. TWO CHAMPIONS: Francoise Durr congratulates the 2000 winner of the French Open, Mary Pierce, the first Frenchwoman to win since Durr won in 1967. www.dispatch.co.za /2000/06/12/sport/HEARTS.HTM   (1074 words)

The Telegraph - Calcutta Durr was ranked as high as third in the world, that coming in 1967. Former world number one Becker, Tobin and 1960s women’s stars Francoise Durr of France and Nancy Richey of the United States will be enshrined here on July 12. Until Mary Pierce’s 2000 triumph at Roland Garros ended a 33-year drought, Durr had been the most recent French woman to capture her nation’s title. www.telegraphindia.com /1030130/asp/sports/story_1622356.asp   (354 words)

espnstar.com - powered by ESPN STAR Sports: Tennis: News Details Durr, 62, captured 11 major doubles titles and her only Grand Slam singles title at the 1967 French Championship, becoming the first French woman to win the event until Mary Pierce ended the drought in 2000. Durr was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame here in 2003. She was a top-10 player from 1965 to 1976 and played 10 years for France's Fed Cup team, going 16-8 in singles and 15-9 in doubles. www.espnstar.com /tennis/tennis_newsdetail_1638421.html   (241 words)

Francoise Durr - Reviews on RateItAll Francoise Durr won the 1967 French Open but was overshadowed during her professional career with the presence of Margaret Smith and Billie Jean King. Francoise Durr also won a US Open Doubles title and a Wimbledon mixed doubles title. Francoise is my favourite tennis player of all time.She was unique and played naturally her own way. www.rateitall.com /showitem.aspx?itemid=19764   (141 words)

Sports - from TBO.com Durr and Stove 1973- Margaret Smith Court and Virginia Wade def. Chanfreau and Durr 1970 - Margaret Smith Court and Judy Tegart Dalton def. Casals and King 1972- Francoise Durr and Betty Stove def. www.sportsnetwork.com /?c=tbonline&page=tennis-w/misc/archive/2002/usopen-doubles-women.htm   (1301 words)

PmWiki RafealDTNelson / SFour Attorney Clifford Durr, his wife Virginia, who was a civil rights activist, and E. Nixon, who had served as branch president of the NAACP, bailed Parks out of jail for one hundred dollars, and Nixon suggested that Parks appeal her case. falcon.tamucc.edu /~wiki/student/student.php/RafealDTNelson/SFour   (1301 words)

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