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...Richmond, April 10 -- Final Democratic Party caucuses gave Lieutenant Governor L. Douglas Wilder the delegates necessary to guarantee him the party's gubernatorial nomination. Grandson of slaves, Wilder would be the first black to be elected a Governor in U.S. history...
...when the G.O.P. complacently assumed that race alone would defeat Wilder. This time he must inspire a larger than usual black turnout while persuading whites to put aside historic prejudices. To fend off criticism from conservatives, he has distanced himself from Jackson. Some militant black leaders in Richmond resent Wilder's retreat from his roots. But if he becomes Governor, he will have done what Jackson and other protest leaders have been unable to do: build a coalition that can put a black in a Governor's mansion...
...decided at five or six that I wanted to be a writer. My father was an agronomist and the editor of a magazine called Southern Planter, in Richmond. I always thought of him as a writer. And I wanted to write...
...staff fails to recognize that not all who question current forms of affirmative action, as the Court does in Richmond, are racist and are intent on "rolling back" civil rights. The staff's position implies that supporters of the decision are somehow against improving race relations and are insensitive to minority concerns. Such implications are both misleading and counterproductive to the purposes of conferences like Visions...
...insensitivity and outright hostility to minority concerns. In the past decade the Justice Department stopped actively seeking civil rights cases to prosecute, and instead dedicated itself to rolling back affirmative action and other minority gains. These attempts culminated in a recent Supreme Court decision which declared unconstitutional a Richmond program requiring 30 percent of the city's contracts to be awarded to minority contractors and thereby jeopardized all government-sponsored affirmative action programs...