Deval Patrick: Teddy Stollard & Jean Thompson - Pt 1

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This 1996 speech by Deval Patrick was why I supported him for Massachusetts Governor in 2006. This is roughly the last half of Patrick's speech at Northeastern University on March 31, 1996, part of the Ford Hall Forum lecture series. Patrick credits the story of Teddy Stollard and Jean Thompson to Marian Wright Edelman. When she tells the story, though, Ms. Edelman credits Elizabeth Ballard. Snopes tells us more: "This work of fiction was penned by Elizabeth Silance Ballard in 1976 and ...