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Martin Nesbitt

...Wars. I came in right after—I think Harold Washington had just passed, and there was this bi...

David Axelrod

...I was the city hall bureau chief. And Harold Washington ran for mayor of Chicago. He was ...
...Byrne split the White vote, and then Harold Washington won the lion's share of the Black vot...
...in that campaign that I covered. Harold Washington and Walter Mondale, who was going to b...
...It was national news. And that's what Harold Washington had to overcome. Were you surprise...
...I said to my designers—I described the Harold Washington button, and I said, “I want that sens...

...in the city was wearing these blue Harold Washington buttons. And I found it deepl...
...election was to form a bloc against Harold Washington , and they had a majority. They made i...
...community when candidates who supported Harold Washington won and tipped the balance of the cit...
...a broader coalition in the way that Mayor Washington had hoped, too? Well, he had built ...
...It would have been unthinkable. I think Harold Washington got two percent of the vote on th...
...with Jane Byrne's story. The first is Harold Washington , and of course, you worked with Harol...
...and of course, you worked with Harold Washington as a media consultant and advisor i...
...sui generis. There wasn't anybody like Harold Washington . He was a remarkable political figure...
...just what an inspiration someone like Harold Washington would have been for Barack Obama, bu...
...about is not the person that succeeded Harold Washington after his death, Eugene Sawyer, bu...
...much like you were talking about Harold Washington , and to some degree, I think, also th...
...of Chicago. I mentioned earlier that Harold Washington had gotten two percent of the vote o...
...St. Pascal's Catholic Church. In 1983, Harold Washington and soon-to-be Democratic nominee fo...

Otis Moss III

...thing. And that brings us to the Harold Washington piece, which is probably one of th...
...a deep, absolute reverence and love for Harold Washington , and there should be. But what is s...
...fascinating—when I found out that when Harold Washington became the nominee, seventy percent o...
...national stage, if that so be. So, Harold Washington gives the model. Jesse Jackson follow...
...follows that model. That model that Harold Washington established, that Jesse Jackso...

...those changes had not happened—so, if Harold Washington never runs, Jesse Jackson doesn't run...
...success, you still have to go to Harold Washington [laughs], you still have to go to Jess...
...and you keep coming back to the Harold Washington coalition. It really galvanized ...
...is borrowed—again, we've got to go to Harold Washington —coalition strategies, which still ar...
...when you start talking about Harold Washington , same thing. He's using tha...

John Rogers

...think that really did set the stage for Harold Washington and Carol Moseley Braun and what cam...
...know and we've talked about, of course, Harold Washington getting elected in 1983 against al...
...to live the values that we learned from Harold Washington and we learned from Maynard Jackson an...
...their organizations. Again, that's what Harold Washington and Maynard Jackson did. If they had t...
...that Carol Moseley Braun and Harold Washington and Barack Obama all lived withi...

...radio station. And we wouldn't have had Harold Washington if we didn't have WVON. That's wher...

Bruce Orenstein

...I was out there, I was watching Harold Washington run for mayor in Chicago [laughs], i...
...was striking in what you said was that Harold Washington 's election in 1983 really drew yo...
...a progressive, change agent mayor named Harold Washington . Trying to think about how to mov...
...of campaign. Then, eventually, because Mayor Washington was elected—Harold Washington wa...
...because Mayor Washington was elected— Harold Washington was elected. He came down to St...

...UNO group that was allying itself with Harold Washington . Was Foster Milhouse in Deering, o...
...to everyone, is the sudden death of Harold Washington in November of 1987, which is aroun...
...is what to do with the fact that Harold Washington is no longer alive, and Eugene Sawye...
...drew all the press in the city. When Harold Washington would go into the Tenth Ward and draw ...
...for the Southeast Side of Chicago. And Harold Washington dies. Well, when Washington dies—w...
...contacts there. We've lost the will of Mayor Washington . Yet we thought, Well, let's see wha...
...St. Kevin's Church, the scene of where Harold Washington announced the moratorium on th...
...position of strength with the death of Harold Washington . All right? And we didn't quite gras...
...the overriding power and authority of Harold Washington , and our relationship to that, we wer...
...to sustain the political climate that Harold Washington ushered in. I guess, going back t...
...in 1987, 1988. Who expected that Harold Washington would collapse dead after winning ...

Newton Minow

...had gone to law school with the late Mayor Washington . That's fascinating. He was a yea...

Toni Preckwinkle

...of values were upheld by someone like Harold Washington , up to his campaign for mayor in 1983...
...I think, 1977. That seems right. And Harold Washington was a candidate in that election. H...
...with that kind of campaign against Harold Washington in 1983. And I think we had probabl...
...in a sense, that was trying to oppose Harold Washington —the regular Democratic Party. Whe...
...turnout, correct, that was equivalent— Harold Washington was an extraordinary person—very smart...

...say I never would've gotten elected if Harold Washington hadn't died. The great irony is tha...
...time. I beat him on my third try, but Harold Washington was dead, and couldn't throw his arm...
...my political career to the fact that Harold Washington died an early death. Can you say...
...the first alderman to actually support Harold Washington , that— Yes, he took a big chance. H...
...Hayes, yes—a great and good friend of Harold Washington defeated—and who succeeded Harol...
...Washington defeated—and who succeeded Harold Washington in Congress when Harold was electe...
...did. And Tom Hynes had run against Harold Washington in 1987 on this third-party slate...
...about how the Hynes family treated Harold Washington was not a small thing, either. Yo...
...politicians as they grew powerful. Harold Washington suffered from this, as I— Now, look...

Timuel Black

...1960s, to the historic 1983 election of Harold Washington , to Barack Obama's various campaign...
...as being significant about the rise of Harold Washington at the same time? And you knew hi...
...of Black communities in the city? Harold Washington came out of a political family. Hi...
...that you have such a strong sense of Harold Washington —and Harold Washington was, I think, ...
...a strong sense of Harold Washington—and Harold Washington was, I think, a hero as well as sort o...

...deal about what his thoughts were of Harold Washington . Could I ask you if you would imagin...
...I ask you if you would imagine what Harold Washington might've thought of Barack Obama? Wha...
...base and the foundation for people like Harold Washington and Barack Obama. Right. Do you thin...

Gerald Kellman

...the exception of the brief period that Harold Washington was mayor of Chicago. Which is exactl...
...is that all of this is happening as Harold Washington is mayor, at least up until the fall o...
...they were and what they could achieve. Harold Washington 's history was a classic Democrati...
...to be misunderstood here, because if Harold Washington had lived, we'd probably be doing a...
...probably be doing an oral history of Harold Washington and the changes he brought. But as man...

...I believe, he either had a picture of Harold Washington up in the office that he would work at...

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