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Jason Berry, a white southerner who served as Charles Evers' press secretary during Evers' unsuccessful campaign for governor of Mississippi in 1971, has recently published a book which contributes much to our understanding of the political adaptation of southern blacks. Berry's book is a straightforward report of what happened...
ONE OF the key problems facing black politicians in the South is developing stable local organizations capable of turning out votes in the same manner that Irish politicians did in cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Despite reports in The New York Times and The Wall Street...
Brown, a 33-year-old lawyer, was serving his second term in the state legislature, and six others sought the fourth district seat vacated by the retirement of Charles Griffin. The district, 12 counties in southwest Mississippi, has about 202,000 voters, a third of them black. It contains Hinds...
Brown also had strong ties with blacks in Adams County, and he had done legal work for Mayor Charles Evers in nearby Fayette. He had a chance to forge an unprecedented coalition between blacks and white conservatives.
We learned that you get black votes the way you get white votes, by knocking on doors and speaking at meetings about things people are interested in. The idea that the black vote is a monolith that can be delivered by a few leaders isn't true now, if it...