Hillary Clinton gave a little lesson on North Carolina history at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
Listing off the accomplishments of various historical figures, the Democratic presidential candidate named progressives and union members, abolitionists and suffragists.
She mentioned the college students in Greensboro who fought segregation at lunch counters.
And then she mentioned a more obscure historical footnote: The Edenton Tea Party.
As Clinton explained, the women of Edenton, N.C., protested taxation without representation in 1774 by resolving to boycott British tea.
It was "one of the first times women in America organized for political action," she said.
