Abigail Thernstrom is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York, a member of the Massachusetts Board of Education , and vice chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights . She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Government, Harvard University , in 1975.
Thernstrom and her husband, Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom, are the co-authors of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (Simon & Schuster ), which the New York Times Book Review , in its annual end-of-the-year issue, named as one of the notable books of 1997.
She serves on several boards, including the Center for Equal Opportunity and the Institute for Justice . From 1992 to 1997 she was a member of the Aspen Institute's Domestic Strategy Group.
President Bill Clinton chose her as one of three authors to participate in his first "town meeting" on race in Akron, Ohio , on December 3 , 1997 , and she was part of a small group that met with the President again in the Oval Office on December 19 .
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