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Article: MOSELEY-BRAUN'S NIGERIAN TRIP ONLY HER LATEST STUMBLE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 28, 1996
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Byline: MIKE ROYKO
When Carol Moseley-Braun beat Illinois Sen. Alan Dixon, many women wept tears of joy.
Politically, 1992 was called ``The Year of the Woman,'' and the brightest star of the many triumphant female candidates was Moseley-Braun.
She had come out of nowhere, a little-known local officeholder, to challenge a powerful incumbent.
And not only was Dixon a middle-age white guy -- and we know how awful they can be -- but he had voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the hated oppressor of the feminist heroine Anita Hill.
So Moseley-Braun's victory was hailed as an inspiring symbol of what a strong, ...