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Article: Willie Brown rides again.(San Francisco mayor)(includes related articles on other black mayors)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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DURING his final term as Speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown was asked what he planned to do after an incredible 31 years in the legislature. Without the slightest hesitation, he responded, "I will be mayor of San Francisco." Months later, the 62-year-old politician, who has educated and bemused and bedazzled Californians for more than a generation, was sworn in as that city's first Black mayor.
"There was never any question in my mind that if I did all the things I needed to do that I would win," he says. "And to that end, I proved a prophet."
Some might be shocked, appalled and possibly amazed at Brown's level of confidence. But not San ...