How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education
By Amy Chozick
December 27, 2015
Hillary and Bill Clinton at Yale in the early 1970s. She traveled to Alabama in summer 1972, while Mr. Clinton was working on George McGovern’s presidential campaign.
Mrs. Clinton and Mrs. Edelman at a Children's Defense Fund event in 2013. Mrs. Clinton frequently talks about her work for the organization.
DOTHAN, Ala. — On a humid summer day in 1972, Hillary Rodham walked into this town’s 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 school’s 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.
“It was dangerous, being outsiders in these rural areas, talking about segregation academies,” said Cynthia G. Brown, a longtime education advocate who did work similar to Mrs. Clinton’s.
She added, “We thought we were part of the civil rights struggle, definitely.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.html?_r=0
Yep, the Clintons are such terrible people. The trashing of this couple is as bad on this site as it is on any RW blog. Yet, they still stand and will stand for years to come, to the chagrin of many.
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If one were to believe the nonsense on this site, the Clintons are the worst people in the world. If it hadn't been for Bill, the Democrats wouldn't have held the WH for years to come. Carter's one term presidency tarnished the party's brand. They think that a Carter redux would have won in 1992? Please.........
Seriously, I'm just hoping one, or more, of my little grandsons can snag such a brilliant, beautiful and loving woman for a wife.
The Left can try to destroy her, like the Right has been trying since the 90s, but they will have the same level of success.
