Clinton: ‘I accept your nomination for President of the United States’
By: News Staff
news@abc6.com
Hillary Clinton made history last night at the Democratic National Convention by being the first woman to accept the presidential nomination from a major political party.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1973, a young Hilary Rodham took her first job doing surveys in the streets of New Bedford.
While working for the children’s Defense Fund, a young Hillary went door to door in New Bedford to try and find an explanation for why so few children were attending schools in the area.
Clinton spoke last night about the devastating discoveries she made.
“I went to work for the Children’s Defense Fund in New Bedford Massachusetts on behalf of children with disabilities who were denied the right to go to school.”
The Democratic nominee recalls “meeting a young girl in a wheel chair on the small back porch of her house."
"She told me how badly she wanted to go to school but it just didn’t seem possible in those days. And I couldn’t stop thinking of my mother and what she’d gone through as a child. It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress you have to change both hearts and laws.”
Clinton’s work in New Bedford was brought to the attention of congress and eventually led to the passage of the individuals with disabilities education act, allowing handicapped students the right to have equal access to education.
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