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Article: Louis E. Martin, 84, black political pioneer, dies.(Obituary)
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- February 17, 1997
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Louis E. Martin, the Georgia-born weekly publisher who became a statesman and revolutionized Black politics in America, died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange, CA. He had pneumonia and suffered a stroke in 1988. He was 84.
Since the 1960s, the tall, politically astute, ex-newsgatherer insisted to a new generation of Democratic White House occupants that the Black vote be measured on an issue basis and not by emotion.
Not only did he campaign for the first of his race to hold high political offices from judges to Cabinet members, he led the drive for the formation of new research organizations to mobilize Black voting strength.
He founded ...