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Source: Black Perspectives

3/22/2022

Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

by Brandon Stokes

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 demonstrated that Black political power had been linked to urban governments, foreshadowing challenges of disinvestment, white flight, and exclusion from broader coalitions in national politics.

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Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

by Brandon Stokes