170 African American Women Leaders Support Hillary. Campaigning For Her In South Carolina.

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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/4/1479980/-170-African-American-Women-Leaders-Support-Hillary-Campaigning-For-Her-In-South-Carolina

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The Clinton campaign is preparing for the South Carolina primary and this is what their African American outreach looks like. They are currently running an excellent ad that features Eric Holder in South Carolina as well.

These women will be campaigning across South Carolina for Hillary.

I'm sure there’s even more outreach to come in SC!

www.nbcnews.com/...

The women will serve as surrogates for Clinton, a Democrat, and according to the campaign, they will host debate watch parties, neighborhood meetings, and women-only phone banks.

They will also walk door-to-door to businesses that include beauty salons, barber shops and grocery stores to carry Clinton's message about closing the pay gap for women, fighting for paid family leave, raising the minimum wage, and protecting women's reproductive rights.

Some of the black women leaders who endorsed Clinton include, actress Angela Bassett; Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, who was killed by police in New York; actress Vivica Fox; Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Florida; Alexis Herman, former Secretary of Labor; Alice Huffman, an NAACP board member; Shonda Rhimes, Executive Producer of the hit television show "Scandal"; actress Holly Robinson-Peete; and Democrats Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington D.C.; Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas; Rep. Maxine Waters of California; and Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland.

"Hillary Clinton has been fighting for African American women and girls her entire career - and she's not going to stop now," LaDavia Drane, Director of African American Outreach for the Clinton campaign, said in a statement

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(Click on link to the the full list of women)

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1. Karen Civil N/T