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While mayor of Gary, Hatcher says, he also became involved in the movement to get a Black person elected president...
...active in this country is to see one of its own, to see all of the barriers taken down so that there would be no office that a Black could not run for, just as those American who were Catholic felt very good when John Kennedy was elected president," Hatcher says. "Well, Blacks have similar aspriations. I have always felt that until we elect a Black president, then the whole issue of racism will continue to be with...
...Hatcher participated in a series of tumultuous meetings in 1983 in which the Black political community met to decide whether to field a candidate in the 1984 presidential race. After a good deal of controversy, Hatcher says, a group of Black leaders first decided in Chicago to support a Black candidate and picked Jesse Jackson some what later. Hatcher says a number of other Blacks were considered, including Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young...
...However, Hatcher chose to get involved with Jackson's run for the presidency and was appointed chairman of the 1984 campaign. Since then, he has served as vice chairman of the Democratic party and helped to form the Black Caucus of the Democratic party. In short, he says, "I have been very involved in the effort to increase the presence of Blacks at all levels of the Democratic party...
...adviser to Jackson this year, Hatcher sat in on many of the key meetings at the Democratic convention last July, in which Jackson and Dukakis resolved their differences and agreed to join forces in the Massachusetts governor's quest for the presidency. He says, however, that the relationship between the two campaigns has occasionally been strained...