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Nov 02, 2006
Articles: Judy Shepard rallies youth to vote, stand up against hate crimes
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By VZ
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(Chicago, USA) - Short in stature, Judy Shepard walks in and stands at the podium, only to be dwarfed by an unwieldy microphone. "I'm not a professional speaker," she tells her audience. They number in the hundreds, mostly teens and young adults. She is, she tells them, "a mom with a story." She's a social studies teacher, a country girl from Wyoming who reluctantly became a political activist after her 21-year-old son Matthew Shepard was beaten, tied to a fence and left for dead on the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming.
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