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"If you have ambitions in politics, my sisters, you've got to find yourselves an area where Blacks are at least 30 percent [of the population], and run from that area," said Helen G. Edmonds in a lecture entitled, "The American Black Woman in the Political Process Since 1900."
"At no time has the role of Black women in politics been brought together under one cover," said Edmonds. She plans to condense her volumes of research on the history of elected and appointed women into a comprehensive work.
The book will not be a "dictionary of biographies," Edmonds said, stressing that she intends to examine in detail the historical trends and developments of Black female politicians.
Edmonds drew from her personal experiences throughout her lecture. During her career, she has served on the faculties of several universites and represented the U.S. as a delegate to the United Nations.
That widely reported case no doubt chilled the courage of potential witnesses all over the country. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau notes that Edmonds' was one of those rare New York cases in which a witness was offered protection, only hours before his death. He turned it down because...