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William S. Doxey Carrollton, Ga...
Carter, in an acceptance speech delivered this morning at his Atlanta, Ga., headquarters, told supporters, "This tremendous crowd at 4 a.m. in the morning represents hundreds of millions of American people who are now ready to see our nation unified...
That is not to say that the efforts of Northern black political leaders did not supremely complement the work of the Southern organization headed by Rep. Andrew Young (D-Ga.). In Roxbury, a Carter aide said last night, there were two precincts where Ford received no votes at all. In New York State Carter's black vote was about 92 per cent; in Detroit an estimated 93 per cent. And Carter carried Pennsylvania, critical for his chances, mainly through the high voter turnout in black North Philadelphia...
Efforts to encourage the black community to get out and vote are particularly intense. The national campaign is financing only two headquarters in Massachusetts and one of them is in Roxbury. Rep. Andrew Young (D-Ga.) officially opened the office there last month, telling workers that "the ones who say 'my vote don't count' are the very ones who are unemployed, who are suffering...
Fallows began to stop "dividing people into demons and heroes" the summer after he graduated from college, when he was working on a project on water pollution for Ralph Nader, "The Water Lords." In Savannah, Ga., he and his co-workers met with the owners of the mill that was fouling the Savannah River, and found them to be "very pleasant, very nice people...