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Richard Arrington Jr.
American politician
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political progress by African Americans
- In African Americans: Political progress
… in New Orleans in 1977; Richard Arrington in Birmingham in 1979; Wilson Goode in Philadelphia and Harold Washington in Chicago in 1983; Kurt L. Schmoke in Baltimore in 1987. Also in 1987, Carrie Saxon Perry of Hartford, Connecticut, became the first Black woman to be elected mayor of a large…
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