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Georgia's cinderella story
Nichols, John | November 11, 1996 issue

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Lynn Wechsberg and Shirley Reams represent the two extremes of DeKalb County, Atlanta, Georgia, a multiracial, economically disparate community that is the site of one of the bitterest Congressional races of 1996. But this pair have two things in common. They are both women and they are both campaigning with a vengeance to reelect Cynthia McKinney, the only African-American woman ever to represent Georgia in the U.S. Congress and one of a handful of unreconstructed progressives still to be found in the House. Wechsberg says that what is really remarkable about Cynthia is the way she has brought together the so-called soccer moms and the welfare moms, the well-to-do women and the working-class women.

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MCKINNEY, Cynthia; POLITICAL candidates; AFRICAN American women; POLITICAL campaigns; ATLANTA (Ga.); GEORGIA; UNITED States
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