Mary Nichols, fading as EPA contender, talks civil rights - Governors' Wind Energy Coalition
Governors' Wind Energy Coalition Mary Nichols, fading as EPA contender, talks civil rights Source: By Maxine Joselow, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 At 18 years old, Mary Nichols attended the 1963 March on Washington, the largest gathering for civil rights of its time. Then as a rising sophomore at Cornell University, Nichols spent a summer in Fayette County, Ga., a historically Black area, to help people register to vote. These early experiences were the focus of an unusual event yesterday where Nichols, who is white, sought to cast herself a...
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