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...Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King, the only Black candidate in an expected field of six challengers to in cumbent Kevin H. White, the issue of race is integral to his campaign and to Hub politics as a whole...
Recently declared Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King dropped by the Science Center Monday night to try to organize student support for his campaign...
...Chicago surprise was made possible by the swelling involvement of a traditionally dormant group-the Blacks. If a similar rebellion of outsiders against White's cynical politics takes place, two candidates stand to benefit-South Boston City Councilor Raymond D. Flynn and Black South End State Representative Melvin H. King. Both have fared well in low-income and minority areas in the past, and both, like Washington in Chicago, have made the machine a major target of their campaigns...
...Melvin H. King. The only minority candidate in the field may prove to be a serious contender if he can gain support from white liberal voters. A five-term state representative from the South End. King finished third in the 1979 mayoral election, behind Joseph F. Timilty and ahead of Finnegan. Timilty is not running, so King may well gain one of the top two spots in the September primary and a shot at victory in a two-man November runoff...
Says Flynn, "The real question is whether the last of the big city mayors is going to survive."Kevin White's Challengers--top row: LAWRENCE S. DiCARA '71, DAVID I. FINNEGAN, RAYMOND L. FLYNN; bottom row; ROBERT R. KILEY, DENNIS J. KEARNEY '73, MELVIN H. KING...