In 1972, Pell led the fight for Basic Education Opportunity Grants -- what we now know as Pell Grants. It was a bruising battle requiring compromise, but in the end, President Nixon signed Senate 659 into law, on June 23, 1972.
Pell received a lot of support from many people, including the president of Clark University, who wrote to the senator to thank him for "truly landmark legislation in the history of higher education."
Indeed, it was.
Image courtesy of Special Collections, University of Rhode Island Library.
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