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Word: blackly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Never mind the delegate count," Gates wrote in The New Yorker, "in 1988, Jesse Jackson was elected President of black America...

Author: By Jesse Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Always in the Spotlight, Jackson Does Politics His Own Way | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...most important aspect of Jackson's campaigns may be the precedent he has set. Jackson forced America to consider the possibility of electing a black man to the highest office in the country...

Author: By Jesse Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Always in the Spotlight, Jackson Does Politics His Own Way | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...broken that great attitudinal barrier that no black can hold office on that kind of level," Frady says...

Author: By Jesse Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Always in the Spotlight, Jackson Does Politics His Own Way | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Most people are not black or brown; they are white, female, and young...Most poor people are not on welfare; they work everyday. They catch the early bus. They sweep the floors. They clean our soiled sheets when we get sick. And when they get sick, they can't afford to sleep in the beds which they have made," Jackson said...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Offers Spirited Words at Kennedy School Class Day | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Jackson finally trained his guns upon Harvard itself, criticizing the KSG for having too few tenured black faculty members...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Offers Spirited Words at Kennedy School Class Day | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

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