Hillary Rodham Clinton by Kathleen Krull

Author:Kathleen Krull
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

In 1969 at Yale Law School, Hillary was one of 27 women in a class of 237—law was still a new field for women. Most professors were skeptical about women becoming lawyers, and ten of the twenty-seven women dropped out before graduating. (Harvard was the school with “too many” women.)

In 1971, Hillary fell in love with fellow Yale law student Bill Clinton: “No one understands me better and no one can make me laugh the way Bill does,” she said.

By 1972, with more women entering politics, some were predicting that Hillary would be the first woman president. She took a summer job with an antipoverty organization in Washington, for no pay, and applied for a grant that allowed her to live there. She met Marian Wright Edelman, who had gone from Yale Law School to become the first black woman lawyer in Mississippi. Edelman founded the Children’s Defense Fund, a groundbreaking group that helps poor and minority children get basic services, and became Hillary’s most important mentor.

Hillary decided children’s rights was going to be her focus. Her first published paper was “Children Under the Law,” about abused and neglected children. Child abuse was a brand-new field—in her classes at the Yale Child Study Center she was one of the first to study the subject.

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