Word: eds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ed Brooke doesn't talk much about being black. "The very hardest kind of opponent for a black candidate," Thomas Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, observes, "is a liberal white who is careful not to bring any racism into the campaign." Pettigrew, a one-time Brooke advisor, says the Senator runs relatively non-racial campaigns--he's not comfortable with the role of "the black Senator" that has been thrust upon him. Only when he fell sharply in the polls in his race against Peabody in 1966 did he give a talk about "being black--it wasn...
...Brooke doesn't talk about himself being black, his campaign staff isn't about to let any potential vote-getting appeal go to waste. So in they've come to Massachusetts this fall, to endorse Ed Brooke, campaign for Ed Brooke and identify Ed Brooke as the leading black politician in the country. Coretta King and Rev. Jesse Jackson have been here, State Rep. Barney Frank' endorsed Brooke, and State Rep. Saundra Graham has sacrificed her own campaign to stump for Brooke. Tsongas has countered, bringing black and women leaders into the state on his own behalf...
...good year for incumbents. Senators Percy, Hathaway, Haskell, and Clark are all running for their liberal lives. Ed Brooke is running too. Up the stairs in the Hampshire House Restaurant in Boston to a fundraiser. Gloria Steinem and Coretta King are there, lauding the role Brooke has played in the struggle for women's rights. It is a partisan crowd and Brooke looks pleased. He has trouble moving through the crowd to get to the door. There is nothing but praise...
...wasn't until mid-day on September 20, hours after Ed King had left "For Boston" ringing in our ears, that the results finally came in. Droney had defeated Harshbarger by approximately 6000 votes and incumbency remained the not-so-easily assailable hurdle...
...either. Not only has Robert Crane become a kind of institution in the Massachusetts political-corporate structure, he plays tennis with Bobby Orr. It is impossible to grow up in Massachusetts and NOT know who Robert Crane is, unless you ignore the sports pages. Golf with Yaz and Jim Ed ever since the 1975 World Series. Fun and games with Orr and Esposito during the Bruins' Stanley Cup years. He has famous and infamous connections (depending on where you bank) with Massachusetts businesses...