Word: races
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's election presented a markedcontrast to last year's race for one of the city'sthree seats in the State House of Representatives...
...that race, supporters of then-State Rep.Saundra Graham and challenger Alvin E. Thompsonangrily accused each other of a sabotaging thecity's punch-card voting machines, and Grahamsupporters called for a recount...
...first time in U.S. history, a Black--Lieutenant Governor L. Douglas Wilder--seemed likely to win a race for governor. And, also for the first time, New Yorkers tapped a Black--David N. Dinkins--for the chief executive office of the largest city in the nation...
...epic from now on," said ThompsonProfessor of Government Martin L. Kilson, Jr, anexpert on race and ethnicity in American politics."In the last 20 years of increasing Blackpolitical inclusion, these are the first up-front,trans-racial politicians...
...race that had focused on the placement of a sewer treatment plant in New Bedford went down to the wire, with Mayor John Bullard and David Williford exchanging the lead as the night grew late...