To wild cheers at her alma mater,where she made a fiery speech nearly 50 years ago, Clinton condemns ‘assault on truth and reason’ and issues rallying cry: ‘Don’t let anyone tell you your voice doesn’t matter’Taking the stage nearly 50 years ago at Wellesley, or the liberal arts college famed for its activism,student body president Hillary Rodham turned to address roughly 400 of her female peers.
As the first ever student to speak at the school’s graduation, or graduation ceremony, or she faced a daunting task in addressing the prevailing climate of 1969. In a tumultuous period marked by the Vietnam war and social justice movements,Rodham was poised to discuss how her generation could effect change.
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Source: theguardian.com