2016 Postmortem
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Peterborough House Party with Governor Howard Dean
63 Robbe Farm Road
Peterborough, New Hampshire 03458
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Join us in Peterborough to hear from Governor Howard Dean about why he's supporting Hillary in the upcoming election!
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Vinca
(50,271 posts)If you'd posted this yesterday I might have. I was thinking of going to one Hillary event just for the heck of it.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)go to a Sanders event also if within driving distance.
riversedge
(70,218 posts)Very good article--gives some insight for Hillary's early work.
How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education
Howard Dean @GovHowardDean 27 Dec 2015
How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education http://nyti.ms/1JCidZ0
How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education
By AMY CHOZICK
DEC. 27, 2015
Dothan, Ala., where Hillary Clinton traveled in 1972 to look into whether a local academy discriminated against black students. Credit Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times
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.
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Hillary and Bill Clinton at Yale in the early 1970s. She traveled to Alabama in summer 1972, while Mr. Clinton was working on George McGoverns presidential campaign. Credit Via Hillary Clinton campaign
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. Clintons.
She added, We thought we were part of the civil rights struggle, definitely.
As issues of race and civil rights have become central to Mrs. Clintons 2016 campaign, and as Black Lives Matter activists have demanded more from her, she has frequently talked about her work for Mrs. Edelmans Childrens Defense Fund, making her advocacy for children the backbone of the biographical story she tells voters. But her experience going undercover in Dothan is a little-known aspect of that work, one she devoted just under 300 words to in her 562-page memoir, Living History.
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........................
riversedge
(70,218 posts)Portsmouth is ready for @HillaryClinton ! #HillaryinNH #ImWithHer
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(70,218 posts)Aislinn Kalob @aislinn_kalob 50m50 minutes ago Manchester, NH
Howard Dean (!!!) stumping for Clinton at #NHPSC2016
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