Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston's white ballots. "The great mass of white voters in Gary and Cleveland," observed Psephologist Richard Scammon, "voted white, not Republican or Democratic." And CORE'S Floyd McKissick, in discussing Cleveland and Gary, pointed out: "A black man is still black and the parties do not support black candidates with the same vim, vigor and vitality that they do white candidates...
What has already happened, of course, is that two big American cities have elected Negro mayors while a third rejected racism as an overriding issue. Both Negro candidates received vigorous support and vital votes from white liberals even though both owe their victories primarily to a unified Negro vote. After three summers of violence in the cities, this in itself is a reassuring portent. It will be up to Mayors Stokes and Hatcher to demonstrate that the only constructive-and indeed, tolerable -force in American politics is ballot power...
...some victories" to offset the revolutionary preachings of black extremists. Even more important, the success of Stokes and Hatcher underscores an important new stage in the Negro's political evolution. Neither of the new mayors fits the traditional mold of the ghetto politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam Clayton Powell. Nor are they products of the Negro middle class such as HEW Secretary Robert Weaver and Edward Brooke, who as public personages seem so nearly white that the Negro workingman is hard put to identify with them...
Carl Stokes saw himself as the man with the spark two years ago when he ran as an independent candidate against Locher, his former boss. He came within 2,143 votes of winning, and did not let up between elections. This year, Stokes, with the influential support of the Plain Dealer, challenged Locher in the primary. He waged a gentlemanly campaign and mentioned race only to say that his own should not be an issue...
...eastern, or Negro side of town. The wind soon equalized that, and then it became apparent that the vote would be heavy-and there was every indication that a big turnout would mean a Taft victory. The pattern of Gary was duplicated as Stokes held fast to his Negro support-he got 96%-and attracted an estimated 19% of the white vote (he had received only 15% in the primary). Even so, it was close: Stokes's plurality was just 1,644 or 0.6%, out of a total vote...