Word: mado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inauguration, Cooper, who is light-skinned (his great-great-grandmother was the mistress of Confederate General Jean Jacques Alexandre Alfred Mouton and is buried beside him in Lafayette, La.), pledged that his administration would offer "equal opportunity in everything" to both races. With his London-educated wife Mado at his side, the new mayor conceded that a swimming pool in a black neighborhood was "psychologically and realistically inaccessible" to whites and that "white kids are swimming in a polluted creek." He would get the money, he promised, to build a new pool convenient to both races, but "they...
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