Clinton's childhood recalled by Hope native

ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 7/10/06 | Grace Leonhart - ap

[ansel12]

The last I heard, military records showed that his named father was actually overseas at the time of conception.

[kcvl]

Autrilla Watkins Scott. Autrilla is a life member of the National Council of Negro Women. She's a native of Hope, Arkansas.

Autrilla Scott. Autrilla is a southern name from Arkansas. I moved to Delano, California in 1950 and in 1955, my husband and two children, and I moved to LongBeach, California, where I started getting involved in being a volunteer in the community. Iwould help register people from our community to vote. This was at a time when not everybodyhad the right vote.

[Polyxene]

"I remember him when he was just a little boy, playing doctor with all the little girls in the neighborhood, exposing himself..."

[Rastus]

Meanwhile, somewhere in Illinois, a young girl dreamed that she, too, could have a name one day. "If only someone could become famous climbing a mountain, I could stop being called 'Hey you.'"

[Tax-chick]

We must be in Arkansas!

[Coldwater Creek]

I grew up in the So. California area, and I never remember black people having to sit in the back of anything that they did not want to.

Blacks have always been able to vote in Calif. without any problems whatsoever.

Guess that the babysitter learned to lie from her little charge.