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Sharpton--who is currently in the midst of a campaign for the U.S. Senate--first became a significant player in New York City race politics during the infamous Tawana Brawley trial in 1987. Brawley, a young Black woman, had been found one summer night, lying in an alley, covered with excrement. She claimed to have been kidnapped four days earlier, held captive in the woods and repeatedly raped by several white males...
Sharpton and two attorneys, Alton H. Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason, took up the case. They did not let Brawley speak to a grand jury or with New York Attorney General Robert Abrams. When Brawley's mother was subpoenaed, Sharpton advised her not to testify and took her to a church for sanctuary...
...shared of evidence was found to support Brawley's claim...
...Brawley affair was not an isolated event. Sharpton has repeatedly employed the same techniques: he searches out alleged victims of racial violence, designates himself as their spokesperson and does what he can to stir up racial tension...
...first achieved national prominence when hedefended Tawana Brawley, a Black teenager whoallegedly was kidnapped and raped by a group ofwhite men. Her accusations were neversubstantiated...