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Article: Black elected officials increased six-fold since 1970: study. (National Report).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- April 15, 2002
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Thirty years after the publication of the first national count of Black elected officials (BEOs), the Washington, D.C.-based Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies recently released its 2000 figures, showing a six-fold increase in elected officials since 1970, from 1,469 to 9,040.
The report, Black Elected Officials: A Statistical Summary 2000, also highlights key political trends.
First, Black women have accounted for all of the growth in the number of BEOs for two consecutive years and make up 34.5% of the total.
Second, younger Blacks, with different views and experiences than their older counterparts, are being elected. And an ...