October 30, 2003
A Politician and Fund Raiser Returns to the Ministry
When William H. Gray III left his job as Democratic majority whip in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1991, many black leaders shook their heads. He was, after all, a rarity in national politics -- a black man who had risen up the ranks to become one of the most powerful leaders in the country.
But a desire to "give back," as he put it at the time, led Mr. Gray to the presidency of the United Negro College Fund, an organization founded in 1944 to raise money to send poor
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