About two years ago, Atlanta lawyer Foster Corbin retired as executive director of Atlanta's Metro Fair Housing, a group that for nearly four decades has fought against discrimination in housing and lending practices across Georgia.

At a luncheon honoring Corbin's long service to the organization, state Senator Vincent Fort was quoted in the Daily Report saying that while there is a "waning commitment to civil rights in this country," Corbin was among those "who kept that dream alive that people should get along together."