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As Massell continually portrayed growing black political power as a threat to white interests, he also pursued other methods to highlight this issue and to try and nullify growing black electoral strength. In December 1971 Massell submitted a proposal to the state assembly that would, without a referendum, have expanded the city limits to take in an extra fifty thousand people, practically all of whom were white, in time for them to participate in the 1973 mayoral election.
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Atlanta
Mainstreaming Black Power
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