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Though black voter registration still lags badly, there are now 170 black mayors in cities across the country, including such major urban centers as Atlanta, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington. Marion Barry, Washington's mayor-elect, and his chief deputy, Ivanhoe Donaldson, began their careers as militants in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Says Barry: "The times have changed and I have changed. I always knew it was better to make policy than to influence it. Electoral politics is just a tool, like non-violent direct action was a tool...
Williams spoke as a guest lecturer for Mayor-elect Ernest Morial's seminar on Urban Policy, Inter-Governmental Relations: A Mayor's Dilemma...
...Orleans Mayor-elect Ernest "Dutch" Morial arrived at Harvard yesterday to begin a three month stay as a fellow of the Institute of Politics...
...seminar will focus on some of the strategies mayors use to deal with federal, state and local agencies, and will feature guest speakers of the mayor-elect's choice...
Charles Royer, mayor-elect of Seattle, Wash. said yesterday the seminar provided an opportunity to evaluate decision-making tools and to meet Washington contacts who could aid city governments in the future...