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Denver And Boston: Why One City Elects Black Mayors And The Other Has Not, Kenneth J. Cooper
Denver And Boston: Why One City Elects Black Mayors And The Other Has Not, Kenneth J. Cooper
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Denver’s population is only 10 percent black, and has never been above 12 percent in any Census, yet in July 2011 the city elected a black mayor. Michael Hancock, a former city councilman, is actually the second African-American mayor of Denver. Wellington Webb served the limit of three terms through 2003. Three of the city’s last four mayors have been of color. Federico Peña, a Mexican American, became the first in 1983.
At 24 percent, Boston’s black population is twice as large as Denver’s and has been so throughout the three decades during which Denver has sent two African Americans …