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den
onor
r
Talent Ro ter of Out-
tanding inority
ommuni ty Colleg
Gr duates.
demic year
Tho nominat d
include: Luis edina,
Berrien Springs' Georgia
Shurn, Benton Harbor'
Ardella ilson, Benton
Harbor' Gregory heeler .
Berrien Springs; and
Loretta Dozier Benton.
Harbor.
are
ba is of
pre nt academic chieve-
ment, potential for sue­
ce at a' four-year
hool and current enroll­
ment in a program uit­
abl for tran fer to a
nior in titution,
rishal said.
She indicated that
CSS minority
nominee also must be
B c rican, American
Indian or Hispanic Ameri-
can citizen or perm-
anent re ident of the
U.S., and heduled to
complete t east 60 credit
hour of ork at their
• community college by the
end of th pre nt
ccording to Mi
Crishal, CSS report that
nearly 35 per cent of the
minority • students li ted
in the Talent Roster are
contacted by four-year
institutions. Of tho
. cont cted, about three­
fourths are offered
fmancial aid varying in
amounts up to the total
cost of tuition, room, and
board.
Center'
1919 ros r that 882.
B omen no hold e -
cti e offlee. This constitute
19 percen of all Bla
ed offici
In cate 0 .
female officials com-
a luger percen of
B elected officials than
bite fern e do of white
e cted offICial. For ex­
amp , 18 percent of Black
s te gislator are omen,
hile only 10 percent of
hit state . tors are
omen.
Bla elected omen,
for th mo t part, are dis­
tributed by region and Ie el
of om e in much the sam
y all Bla e cted off-
icial . on quently, the'
uth h th rge t num-
ber of BI c elect d om n
(51.2 percent); the est
the le t (7.9 percent).
o t Blac female
fficeholders serve in mun-
icipal and edu tional po '-
do the majority of
B c elected offlct
eral. Forty' percen t of
. Black fe offkeh den
at municipal ftl,
includina 13 mayon. Thirty
-fi percent IeIW ed-
tion offi
As e noted I t year,
J oint Ceo ter' annual
y t the num­
elected offlci
to incre , but a
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declining rate. itician and by repeated Tho interested in
Since 1970, hen allegations that B elect-: obtaining copies of the
there ere 1,469 B c ed offlCials are d by 1919 Ro ter may write:
-ed offici , th annual media and enforcement Office ofPublicatio ,Joint
rates of increa ha been authoritie. Center for Political Sutdie ,
22 percent (1979-72); 16 5. In a ggish econ- 1426 "H" Street, N. .,
percent (1972-73); 14 per- omy Black intere t may Suite 539, Washington,D.C.
cent 1913-74; 17 percent tum ay from political The purchase price of
(1914-75); 14 percent participation to ard per-
(1975-76); 8 percent sonal survival.
(1976-71};'4 percent (1977- Commenting on the
18); and 0 percent (1978- ariou factors, Joint Center
79). Pre 'dent Eddie . illiam
TIllS DECL in id, "While the formal bar-
the annual rate of incre riers to Bla political part-
may be attributed to a icipation have been removed
combination of factor: a variety of more informal
I. Be een 1970, and more in idious barriers
hen the Joint Center remain.
initiated its annual sur- Social and economic
vey, and 1974, Bla handicaps in disadvantaged
rapidly filled elect d office communitie limit and un-
in jurisdiction with b- dercut . effective political
tantial Black population participation racial gerry-
thereby creating an artifi- mandering dilutes th Blac
cal annual rate of incre vote; hite voters in many
This h not been true t in ance are reluctant to
the county level here support Bla candidate
B c comprise 50 percent and in some case ,have held
or more of 103 counties, higher andard for perfor-
mainly in the South. mance for B c candidate
2. Continuing politi- and oflkials than for their
'cal d economic barriers . �te counterpart .
make it difficult for Bia A significant increase
td register and vote, run for in B elected office­
public' offlce, or to win. holders, therefore.' will de-
3.The relatively pend upon a resoultion of a
10 rate of B1 voter part- variety of social, political
i�pation art again 'and attitudinal problems,"
lac candidate
4. B c s are dis- .. - ---------
coon d by the national
disenc!aantment ·th pol-
$19.50 per copy m t be
paid in vance for orders
·of . gle copy.
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Political Studi a non­
profit, non-partisan organ­
ization hich conducts r -
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