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...VANN. Standing beside a framed picture of Malcolm X, Vann scans the blighted streets below his office window in a poor section of Brooklyn. "Rhetoric means nothing here," says the New York State assemblyman. "We are establishing a track record so that politicians everywhere understand that this city's black vote has national implications...
...fifth term in the assembly, Vann's zeal is burning bright as he works on his most ambitious political venture yet. Like other black leaders, he is channeling black energy away from protest into a new power at the polls. "Politics is a game of numbers," he says. "And on numbers alone, blacks can win in many cases...
...Vann hopes to double the black registration in Brooklyn to 400,000 by 1985 and help some candidate grab city hall away from Ed Koch, who Vann feels is indifferent to black concerns. The soft-spoken Vann spends several nights a week going door-to-door canvassing unregistered voters. "My approach is from the grass roots," he says. "If you don't have power there, you don't have it anywhere...
...Vincent Vann, who is of Cuban ancestry and grew up in New Jersey, says his children will be bilingual. "I am going to raise them speaking Spanish and English...
King recognizes three stages of "historical consciousness"--a term poorly defined by him and most others who overuse it--in the Southern Renaissance, an intellectual outburst after World War I that includes William Faulkner, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe, Lillian Smith, W.J. Cash, C. Vann Woodward, and Robert Penn Warren. King observes that these three historical stages leading up to the Southern Renaissance--repitition, recollection, reassimilation--parallel exactly the process of psychoanalysis. The writer and historians of this era, climaxing in Woodward, struggled to reassess the Southern burden, the Gone With the Wind fantasy of hoopskirts and grace, the centerpiece...