2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Can I have a list of Hillary's Pro POC legislation? [View all]radical noodle
(10,462 posts)She worked with teens incarcerated in adult prisons in South Carolina. I assume that this was through the Children's Defense Fund.
She went house to house to find special needs kids who were not enrolled in school and worked to get them enrolled and their needs taken into consideration. (she was also bashed for this by the GOP because... well... Marian Wright Edelman)
At some point, she went to Texas to register Latinos to vote, I believe for George McGovern's campaign.
She did pro-bono children's rights cases. (She was bashed for this later by Republicans who claimed she wanted to let children sue their parents)
She went to southern schools pretending to be looking for a school that didn't allow black children, to find those schools in violation of the law. (I'm sure this was popular with the GOP as well)
As first lady of Arkansas, she implemented a program called Parents for Preschool Youngsters which taught parents of at risk preschoolers to give their children a good start for school.
She co-founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families which deals with education, health care and juvenile justice.
She helped to establish Arkansas's first neonatal nursery in Arkansas Child Hospital.
She worked to improve education in Arkansas, which at the time was nearly at the bottom of the states in quality of education, getting input from teachers and parents all over the state.
As far as I know, all the things she established in Arkansas are still working well today.
That's much of what she did before she went to Washington DC as FLOTUS.
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