Word: inspirit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fitting that Jackson should be the man to inspirit the black electorate. For years he has been the one black leader whose attention was focused clearly on the dramatic stage on which the last act of the American racial melodrama will eventually be enacted. That stage is located in the black mind...
Nonetheless, he can still inspirit his city. He wavered on school busing but stood fast on racial harmony; after a welter of racially motivated assaults in 1976, he led a march of 30,000 people to protest violence. During his tenure, Boston has rebuilt its downtown and waterfront, added thousands of hotel rooms and sold itself, accurately, as "the livable city." Faneuil Hall Marketplace is the ultimate urban mall...