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Related: About this forumNYT: How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education
DOTHAN, Ala. On a humid summer day in 1972, Hillary Rodham walked into this towns new private academy, a couple of cinder-block classrooms erected hurriedly amid fields of farmland, and pretended to be someone else.
Playing down her flat Chicago accent, she told the schools guidance counselor that her husband had just taken a job in Dothan, that they were a churchgoing family and that they were looking for a school for their son.
The future Mrs. Clinton, then a 24-year-old law student, was working for Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist and prominent advocate for children. Mrs. Edelman had sent her to Alabama to help prove that the Nixon administration was not enforcing the legal ban on granting tax-exempt status to so-called segregation academies, the estimated 200 private academies that sprang up in the South to cater to white families after a 1969 Supreme Court decision forced public schools to integrate.
Her mission was simple: Establish whether the Dothan school was discriminating based on race......
A look at Mrs. Clintons efforts that summer, through archives and interviews with more than 50 local officials, civil rights activists and people who knew her, reveals a summer job that was both out of character for the bookish law student and a moment of awakening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?src=trending&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Trending&pgtype=Blogs
Playing down her flat Chicago accent, she told the schools guidance counselor that her husband had just taken a job in Dothan, that they were a churchgoing family and that they were looking for a school for their son.
The future Mrs. Clinton, then a 24-year-old law student, was working for Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist and prominent advocate for children. Mrs. Edelman had sent her to Alabama to help prove that the Nixon administration was not enforcing the legal ban on granting tax-exempt status to so-called segregation academies, the estimated 200 private academies that sprang up in the South to cater to white families after a 1969 Supreme Court decision forced public schools to integrate.
Her mission was simple: Establish whether the Dothan school was discriminating based on race......
A look at Mrs. Clintons efforts that summer, through archives and interviews with more than 50 local officials, civil rights activists and people who knew her, reveals a summer job that was both out of character for the bookish law student and a moment of awakening.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?src=trending&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Trending&pgtype=Blogs
My 20's were not so well spent.
This is a good long read. Front page, I think from reading comments.
Some of those comments are complaints about how the press just FAWNS over Hillary ALL the time.
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NYT: How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education (Original Post)
Rose Siding
Dec 2015
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. Hillary took her job very seriously at the Children's Defense Fund.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)2. K & R
MADem
(135,425 posts)3. I saw this in the paper and raced over here to post it, and you've beaten me to the punch!
So I'll kick and rec instead!!!!!!!!!!!