Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in U.S. history, a Black--Lieutenant Governor L. Douglas Wilder--seemed likely to win a race for governor. And, also for the first time, New Yorkers tapped a Black--David N. Dinkins--for the chief executive office of the largest city in the nation...
Other notable victories yesterday included the election of first-time Black mayors in Seattle and New Haven, alsomajority-white cities...
Says Graduate School of Education ProfessorNathan Glazer, "It is a breakthrough. It certainlymeans that a Black candidate who wants to reachout to a white electorate and win can do that...
...importance of yesterday's voting wasperhaps best illustrated by the contrast betweenDinkins' and Wilder's narrow victories in theirraces and the ease with which Detroit MayorColeman Young won election to a fifth term in themajority-Black city...
Cincinnati repealed PR in 1957 shortly afterthe election of Theodore Barry--a Black man--toits city council, says Joseph F. Zimmerman, anexpert on PR at the State University of New Yorkat Albany. And he says the timing of the twoevents is probably not a coincidence...