Wayne Dawkins is assistant professor of journalism at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he is the author of Rugged Waters: Black Journalists Swim the Mainstream and Black Journalists: The National Association of Black Journalists Story, as well as a contributor to Black Voices in Commentary: The Trotter Group and My First Year as a Journalist.
In City Son author Wayne Dawkins showcases fresh voices within the
black Brooklyn community who helped deliver the 1965 mayoral
election to John V. Lindsay.--Milton Mollen, Lindsay associate,
retired judge, and leader of the 1992-94 Mollen Commission
investigation of police corruption
There's an old saying that behind every great man, you'll find a
great woman. The reverse might be said in the case of Shirley
Chisholm, who served in the US House of Representatives for the
12th District of New York and who was the first African American
woman to be elected to that body. Chisholm's distinguished career
and dedication to her community are well known, but how many today
realize that it was a successful lawsuit brought by Brooklyn voting
rights activist Andrew W. Cooper that ultimately opened the doors
for Chisholm to make her move? Wayne Dawkins devoted seven years to
crafting a biography of Cooper, a former beer company employee whom
he has called mentor. Dawkins documents the explosive times that
helped forge a shift in the political landscape that reached well
beyond the borders of Brooklyn, New York.-- "Dailypress.com"
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