Word: morial
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Former New Orleans Mayor Ernest "Dutch" Morial said that "we are in an era of broader citizen participation," brought about by the programs of the 1960's and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which dramatically increased Black voter registration...
...states and localities where they can least afford it, in basic outlays for such services as police, education and sanitation. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, whose state is in a better position than most to weather such cuts, decries the proposal as "a cruel joke." Says New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors: "In the name of deficit reduction, the budget proposes to cut or eliminate nearly every federal investment of benefit to the cities...
...black municipal hiring increased 16%, compared with only 2% in industrial cities headed by whites. As mayor of Atlanta from 1974 to 1981, a determined Maynard Jackson invested the city's money in black-controlled banks and opened construction projects to black contractors. In New Orleans, Mayor Ernest Morial successfully pushed for at least 10% minority ownership in a new $300 million retail, hotel and office complex. "All their lives, blacks are told to work through the system to get a piece of the action," says Morial, a civil rights lawyer and judge before his 1978 election. "If that...
...most successful black mayors have created strong alliances with the white business establishments in their cities. Morial worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce to attract high-tech companies to New Orleans. Andrew Young was opposed by Atlanta's business community when he ran, but after his election he wooed its leaders over lunch, telling them, "I can't run the city without...