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Erika George's mother had scars on her legs until the day she died. They came from a beating she endured from a Louisiana mob angered because she was playing at a "whites only" playground. She was black.
Now George, as a Utah alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention that begins Monday, will participate in something that her mother could never have imagined -- the expected nomination of Barack Obama, a black man, to be the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party.See the full content of this document
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Delegates Converege On Denver
"I do find myself wondering if she could have imagined the world today, one that she and others like her worked to realize," said George, now a law professor at the University of Utah.
As a black woman, she said, "The past civil rights work has made me, a professor, an...See the full content of this document
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