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Tanuki

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3. Hillary Rodham went to Alabama in 1972 to work on a project
Wed Jul 19, 2017, 01:04 PM
Jul 2017

with Marian Wright Edelman to investigate whether tax dollars were being used to support private "segregation academies." Betsy DeVos will be happy to funnel more of our money in the form of vouchers to support academic Apartheid.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/us/politics/how-hillary-clinton-went-undercover-to-examine-race-in-education.amp.html

..."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.".....(more)

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