Word: minter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perhaps, only a small victory. The flag, after all, never came down. But it was a victory and--to Minter, at least--a source of satisfaction all the same...
...MINTER was a government concentrator, who specialized in ethnic politics in America. Last summer, she interned at the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, where she lobbied on employment issues relating to disadvantaged and lower-income youth. Now, she's headed for a one-year fellowship in South Africa, where she plans to study race relations, particularly among the nation's mixed race, or "colored," population...
...doesn't take a fortune teller to see that Minter's future lies along the road of social and political activism. But after her experience in Washington last summer, Minter bristles at the thought of pursuing a career in electoral politics...
...suppose there was one age in which I did have political aspirations," Minter says. But seeing Washington at work "gives you a really unattractive view of what's going on in our nation's capital. I really didn't like what...
Which might be just as well. As someone who is happiest when she can make a tangible difference herself, even on a small scale, Minter says she hopes to return to her community someday...