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Mayor Jerry Brown, Take II
Cooper, Marc | March 18, 2002 issue

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Those looking to pigeonhole Mayor Jerry Brown's ideology would be further confounded by his eruption into local Oakland, California politics. Oakland spawned the Pullman porters union and the Black Panthers, and by the late 1970s a black Democratic machine controlled the levers of political power. But the city languished and suffered. Poverty rates rose. Crime raged. Schools collapsed. And the black-majority school board became a national laughing-stock when it proposed courses in "Ebonics." Only a white politician with Brown's unimpeachable race record could have dared to challenge the establishment of a city that is more than 40 percent black and is black-governed.

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MAYORS; BROWN, Jerry; POLITICAL science; POVERTY; BLACK English; POLITICIANS; OAKLAND (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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