Word: stepâ
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Cold Party. During his Senate campaign, Brooke responded to the exaggerated threat of white backlash by taking the unusual step???for him?of raising the racial issue. He condemned both Stokely Carmichael and Georgia's Lester Maddox as "extremists of black power and white power." Brooke swamped Chub Peabody by 1,213,473 to 744,761 votes and took the Senate seat occupied for 22 years by Brahmin Leverett Saltonstall...
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