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expression of the parents, from the expression of the teachers.... I was absolutely blown away by how intense these young fourth and fifth graders were in expressing why to them there is absolutely no difference between all of them, no matter what their name is and no matter what the color of their skin.
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on Race focused on Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the most-culturally, linguistically-diverse school districts in the country. The President's Advisory Board on Race commissioned a Case Study on a local Elementary School in Fairfax, Virginia and their Report "America in the 21st Century: Forging a
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President Clinton introduced the initiative during his commencement speech to the graduating class of the university. In the speech, he discussed his own experience growing up in the segregated south and its profound effect on him. He addressed the continuing problems surrounding race in America and
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I want this panel to help educate Americans about the facts surrounding issues of race, to promote a dialogue in every community of the land to confront and work through these issues, to recruit and encourage leadership at all levels to help breach racial divides, and to find, develop and recommend
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t is absolutely delightful that the children at the elementary level don't know what color is. . .They understand diversity...they celebrate their differences. One young student said, 'And that makes us one. We all are the same inside.' And I got that very distinctly from the curriculum, from the
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served as Executive Director of the One America Initiative. Several other senior civil rights Presidential appointees and leaders in the national civil rights community served as senior staff for the Initiative.
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Clinton identified three imperatives for the initiative to focus: expanding opportunity, demanding responsibility, and creating one American community based on respect and shared values.
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how to implement concrete solutions to our problems -- solutions that will involve all of us in government, business, communities, and as individual citizens.
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based on equal opportunity, fairness, and respect for all as well as shared responsibility and a greater sense of civility. Clinton viewed
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as something that too often divided and weakened the nation even as America was rapidly becoming the world's first truly-
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Convening and encouraging community dialogue, fostering improved understanding of race relations
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The President's Initiative on Race; The President's Advisory Board on Race
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in December 1997 in her capacity as member of the Advisory Board on Race
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the need to find ways to solve them. Clinton envisioned an
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Commencement Speech, University of California San Diego
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This article incorporates public domain material from
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Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences
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Seal of the President of the United States

Bill Clinton
John Hope Franklin
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Suzan D. Johnson Cook
Thomas H. Kean
Angela E. Oh
Robert J. Thomas
William F. Winter
Bill Clinton
Executive Order
13050

Bill Clinton
America
race relations
multiracial democracy
Judith A. Winston
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Bailey's Elementary School for the Arts and Sciences
John Hope Franklin
John Hope Franklin
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Suzan D. Johnson Cook
Suzan D. Johnson Cook
Thomas H. Kean
Thomas H. Kean
Angela E. Oh

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