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encounterack and her was part of a report that gave marian wright edelman the ammunition she needed toeep working to force the nixon administration to take those tax incentives away. [applause] then she went down to south , where she met one of the nicest fellows i ever met, the wonderful union leader, franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexican-american voters. i think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. in our last year in law school, hillary kept up his work. she went to south carolina to youngy so many african-american boys, i mean young teenagers, were being in men'sr years prisons. she filed a report on that for changes, also making -- always making things better. get back toet's business. i was trying to convince her to marry me. i first proposed to her on a trip to great britain. the first time she had ever been overseas. we were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake. i asked her to marry me, and she said, i can't do it. teach1974, i went on to in law school and hillary moved to keep working on children's issues. this time, trying to figure o

marian wright and peter edelman met on that trip to the delta. been married for almost 40 years. marian wright edelman went on to create the children's defense fund. catherine wilson, meanwhile, did get some education and training from programs that grew out of the war on poverty. but the economy today isn't the same as then. >> what has happened over the last 40 years is that we've had a major change in our economy. good jobs have gone to technology, to globalization, and the consequence is that half of our population is not earning enough to support their families and a whole lot of them can't find jobs at all. >> reporter: catherine wilson's had a whole series of part time jobs, but she's never made much money and has survived mostly on government assistance. she's on social security now. 22% of the people in mississippi rely on food stamps. >> some things have gotten better. we've got a middle class that wasn't there. >> reporter: but there's still lots missing. >> over 80% of the black children in mississippi cannot read or compute at grade l

already been involved in the law school's legal services project and she had been influenced by marian wright edelman. she took a summer internship interviewing workers in migrant camps for senator walter mondale's subcommittee. she had also begun working in the yale new haven hospital to develop procedures to handle suspected child abuse cases. she got so involved in children's issues that she actually took an extra year in law school, working at the child study center to learn what more could be done to improve the lives and the futures of poor children. so she was already determined to figure out how to make things better. hillary opened my eyes to a whole new world of public service by private citizens. in the summer of 1972, she went to alabama to visit one of those segregated academies. there were only half a million white kids in the world. the only way economics worked is if they claimed tax exemptions to which they were not legally titled. she got sent to prove they weren't. so she sauntered into one of these academies all by herself pretending to be a housewife that had just moved to town a

[laughter] and she went back and her encounter was part of a report that gave marian wright edelman themmunition she needed to keep working to force the nixon administration to take those tax exemptions away and give our kids access to an equal education. [cheers] then -- then she went down to south texas, where she met one -- [cheers] she met one of the nicest fellows i ever met, the wonderful union leader franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexican-american voters. i think some of them are still around to vote for her in 2016. [applause] and then, in our last year in law school, hillary kept up this work. she went to south carolina to see why so many young -- she went to south carolina to see why so many young african-american boys - i mean, young teenagers - were being jailed for years with adults in men's prisons. she filed a report on that, which led to some changes too. always making things better. [cheers] meanwhile, let's get back to business. i was trying to convince her to marry me. [laughter] i first proposed to her on a trip to great britain, the first time she'd eve

and she went back and her encounter was part of her report that gave marian wright edelman needed tox exemptions away and give our kid access to an equal education. then she went down to south texas where she met -- she met one of the nicest fellas i ever met, the wonderful union leader franklin garcia, and he helped her register mexican-american voters. i think some of them were still around to vote for her in 2016. then in our last year in law school she went to south carolina to see why so many young -- she went to south carolina to see why so many young african-american boys, i mean young teen-agers were being jailed for years with adults in men's prisons. and she filed a report on that which led to some changes, too. always making thing better. now, meanwhile let get back to business. i was trying to convince her to marry me. i first proposed to her on a trip to great britain. the first time she'd ever been overseas and we were on the shoreline of this wonderful little lake, and i asked her to marry me and she said i can't do it. so in 1974 i went home to teach in the law school