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Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder went home to Richmond last week to deliver the most surprising speech of his four-month presidential campaign. In his State of the Commonwealth address, he stunned legislators by announcing the end of his quest for the Democratic nomination. Wilder took a page from New York Governor Mario Cuomo's book, saying he had chosen to devote himself to "guiding Virginia through these difficult times . . . as my pledge and responsibilities demand...
...BELIEVE: EVANGELICALISM IN SOUTHERN URBAN CULTURE, the Valentine Museum, Richmond. An exploration of the roots and influences of Evangelicalism in politics, culture and mores south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Through Sept...
Beginning in the late 1800s, however, people seemed to hanker for history and tradition. Statues of Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant rose in every town and hamlet. In 1907, 20,000 spectators came to see a Jefferson Davis monument dedicated in Richmond. The first of many colonial revivals in design was under way. Historical pageants flourished...
Some white Californians, meanwhile, welcome the new arrivals. In their 49 years on Clinton Avenue in Richmond, a blue-collar refinery center on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, Gladys Parks, 76, and her husband Bruce, 81, have seen the city go from white to black, then to Hispanic and Asian, and finally to mixed-white again on the gentrifying edge of the city. Bruce, a Stockton-born "prune picker," as native Californians are called, recalls having real misgivings when the "coloreds" first came to town during World War II. Today he and Gladys call the black family next...
Wilder has seen this movie before. From the time he emerged from the genteel poverty of Richmond's Church Hill section, through a career as a flamboyant criminal lawyer and real estate investor that made him rich, during 22 contentious years in politics, Wilder, 60, has dealt repeatedly with rejection. Defying the Establishment, whether white or black, is his vocation. "I don't need the anointers," he says. "I don't need the appointers. Nor do I need the laying on of hands...