81. Black leaders in Lancaster, where roughly a third of the population is African-American, did not immediately learn of the incident. 82. Black leaders in the Civil War era had pushed for President Abraham Lincoln to allow their people to fight in the Civil War. 83. Black union leaders say they were not consulted in the selection of either candidate for the October election. 84. Both have been courting prominent black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who remains uncommitted. 85. Both men had maintained that the Barry case was an effort by white prosecutors to unseat a black leader. 86. A recent example is the January indictment of Qubilah Shabazz, daughter of slain black leader Malcolm X. 87. After appearing together last year on a local TV show, Koch told Sharpton he was frustrated that no black leaders had embraced the Second Chance idea. 88. Al-Amin maintained his connections to the Lowndes County black leaders whom he helped gain political office. 89. Brown may find that liberals in Potrero Hill, Polk Gulch, and the Inner Sunset prefer their black leaders dashiki-clad and irrelevant. 90. Bruce R. Watkins, a black political leader and former city councilman, noted pointedly that the affluent residents already had pushed the road away from them. |
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