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Current Lane Report

Let Joe Ferguson fix city’s minority business program
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The late Harold Washington, the "people's mayor," was voted into office in 1983 after cobbling together a coalition of African-Americans and Hispanics yearning for the civil rights they had been denied, white liberals fed up with racially polarizing politics and labor unions incensed over mounting job losses. Mr. Washington's policies of inclusion gave African-Americans and Hispanics-as well as women, Asians and gays-a voice in city government and a shot at the American dream they never had before.

 

 

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