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- PEOPLE. // National Review Bulletin;7/14/1978, Vol. 30 Issue 28, pB99
This article presents information related to political candidates of the U.S. In Mississippi, Governor Cliff Finch has lost his chance to run for the seat of retiring Senator James Eastland, to a political outsider, Maurice Dantin. Dantin is yet to face another election in November against...
- Black and Latino Candidates: Successful Strategies? Herrnson, Paul S.; Stokes, Atiya Kai // Campaigns & Elections (1996);Nov2001, Vol. 22 Issue 9, p9
Reveals why African Americans and Latinos hold seats in state legislatures in the United States, according to a survey of candidates who ran for office between 1996 and 1998. Issues that those minority candidates are more likely to stress; Voters that those minority candidates are targeting.
- Blacks and High Profile Statewide Office: 1966-1996. Jeffries, Judson L. // Western Journal of Black Studies;Fall98, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p164
Presents a study which examined the election campaigns of African Americans who ran for public office from 1966 to 1996. Factors which led to the success of Afro American candidates in the United States; Related studies and its limitations; Research design; Support and campaign strategy.
- Blacks unite in Chicago. Boyd, Herb // New York Amsterdam News;1/6/2011, Vol. 102 Issue 1, p4
The article reports on the decision of African American candidates to withdraw from electoral race in Chicago, Illinois.
- Congressional, school board, port seats take spotlight. TAYLOR, DAPHNE // South Florida Times;8/21/2014, Vol. 24 Issue 34, p7A
The article focuses on the goal of African American candidates for the Congress, school board, state representative, and port commissioner in key elected office in Palm Beach County, Florida to retain their seats or win election for the first time in 2014.
- Political Pedagogy. // America;10/16/1971, Vol. 125 Issue 11, p277
The article reports that Catholic nun, Sisters Margaret Hohman and Jo Ann Kaelin will work as staffer for Mayor Charles Evers, African American candidate for Mississippi governor in 1971. It says that the sisters' role range from appearing at rural rallies to seeking funds and poll watchers from...
- BLACK REPRESENTATION GROWTH AND THE SEAT-VOTE RELATIONSHIP. O'Loughlin, Jon // Social Science Quarterly (University of Texas Press);Jun1979, Vol. 60 Issue 1, p72
This article examines the growth in the number of African American political candidates and legislators since 1940 in 18 large cities in the U.S. Since the second World War, the number of African Americans elected to political office in the U.S. has increased tenfold. During the middle and late...
- Miss. blacks voted for their interests. CURRY, GEORGE E. // Charlotte Post;7/3/2014, Vol. 39 Issue 43, p4A
The author discusses the support of the African Americans to Senator Thad Cochran in U.S. Senate run-off election in Mississippi in comparison to Chris McDaniel, tea party favorite, and mentions that African-Americans voted against their interest.
- Blacks ask Cochran for help restoring key voting provision. BARROW, BILL; WAGSTER PETTUS, EMILY // South Florida Times;7/10/2014, Vol. 24 Issue 28, p3A
The article reports on the request of African Americans in Mississippi to the help of Senator Thad Cochran to restore the Voting Rights Act, which was struck down by the Supreme Court's conservative majority in 2013.
