Early Life and Career
Clark was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1950, the daughter of William Howard Clark, Sr., and Cornelia Anne Ewin Clark. Her family moved to Atlanta when she was 12 years old. After high school in Atlanta, she attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where she received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971, with a major in sociology. She subsequently earned the Master of Arts in Teaching at Harvard University in 1972 and worked as a teacher in Atlanta for several years.
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