Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David N. Dinkins won election as New York City's first Black mayor, while L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia clung to a slender lead over Republican J. Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation's first elected Black governor...
Democrat John Daniels was elected mayor of NewHaven, becoming the first Black mayor of hismajority-white city. And Mayor Coleman Young ofDetroit, also Black, led in his bid for a fifthterm...
...Seattle, city council member Norm Riceappeared likely to edge opponent Doug Jewett inhis drive to serve as the city's first Black chiefexecutive...
Cleveland picked a new Black mayor, with stateSen. Michael R. White leading City CouncilPresident George Forbes in a particularly bitterrace. Forbes called his rival a "slumlord." Whitesaid his opponent was a "master of sleaze...
...YORK--At a victory party for New York City's first-ever Black mayor, the politics of tradition mingled with the spirit of changing times...