Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next morning black frustration flared again. At a packed caucus of black delegates, Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., pleaded for unity. Her eyes brimming, she said, "Those of you who wronged Andy Young need to say, 'I'm sorry.' " She also was booed. Later, Jackson scolded the black delegates. "It is a source of embarrassment to me for those of you who respect me and my leadership to boo or hiss any black leader," he said. Looking at King, his eyes now tearful too, he added, "She deserves to be heard...
Appearing at the black caucus with Ferraro, Mondale took off his suit jacket and also appealed for a united front. He praised Jackson's address as "one of the most remarkable speeches in modern times." After noting his own strong record on civil rights, he said amid cheers, "I do not ask you today simply to join us in the campaign, but in Government, in the courts and in the Cabinet." Any large-scale defection of Mondale delegates apparently had been stemmed...
When she stepped onstage Monday afternoon for a women's political fund raiser, and the next morning at a women's caucus, she was received like a feminist superheroine, history incarnate. At the morning caucus session of 2,000 female delegates and alternates, she kept her remarks brief and understated, as she did in all of her joint appearances with Mondale. Yet, in five minutes the audience whooped and applauded ten times and chanted, "Gerry, Gerry, Gerry." Said she: "I need you. We all need each other." By remarkable coincidence, Ferraro's birthday...
...Women were told to scamper. My own brother Hubert was the nominee, and I was told to get lost. Today a great partnership is occurring." Jane McMichael, legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, was the staff director of the National Women's Political Caucus during the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. "Remember our so-called headquarters hotel? The cockroaches were big enough to steal the typewriters. I remember crying when Shirley Chisholm was nominated for President...
...relationship to the outside world and the way I feel about myself," explains Anne Just, who leads Vermont's delegation in San Francisco this week. "It is as though the molecules had been rearranged." Said Koryne Horbal, a founder of the Democratic Party Women's Caucus: "When I walked down the street today, I felt different, I felt validated...