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Norm Rice Mayoral Records
Records documenting Rice's tenure as Seattle mayor through much of the 1990s. Major issues covered include downtown revitalization, education, public safety, comprehensive planning, energy, and arts and culture. Other topics represented include the Downtown Seattle Development Association, Seattle, Wash.; King County Transit Division; the Port of Seattle; the Private Industry Council; the Puget Sound Council of Governments; the Seattle Art Museum; the Seattle Housing Authority; the Seattle Mariners, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Seattle Supersonics; the Bonneville Power Administration; affirmative action programs; African Americans; AIDS (the disease); cable television; economic development; the Goodwill Games; homelessness; housing; neighborhood planning; the Seattle Commons; and transportation planning.
Briefing Book
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Mayor
Describes eight busy days in the life of Norman Rice, mayor of Seattle.
African-American Mayors
On November 7, 1967, the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, and Gary, Indiana, elected the nation's first African-American mayors to govern their cities. Ten years later more than two hundred black mayors held office, and by 1993 sixty-seven major urban centers, most with majority-white populations, were headed by African Americans.Once in office, African-American mayors faced vexing challenges. In large and small cities from the Sunbelt to the Rustbelt, black mayors assumed office during economic downturns and confronted the intractable problems of decaying inner cities, white flight, a dwindling tax base, violent crime, and diminishing federal support for social programs. Many encountered hostilit...
