The Impact of Black Mayors on the Black Community: The Case of New Orleans’ Ernest Morial

Michael Preston, “Limitations of Urban Power: The Case of Black Mayors,” inThe New Urban Politics, ed. Louis H. Masotti and Robert L. Lineberry (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1976), p. 119.

Ibid., p. 111.

See James Button, “Southern Black Elected Officials: Impact on Socioeconomic Change,”The Review of Black Political Economy 12 (Fall 1982): 29–45; Peter K. Eisinger, “Black Mayors and the Politics of Racial Economic Advancement,” inReadings in Urban Politics: Past, Present, & Future, ed. Harlan Hahn and Charles J. Levin (New York: Longman, 1984), pp. 249–260; Walter Leavy, “Can Black Mayors Stop Crime?”Ebony 39 (December 1983): 116–122; William E. Nelson, Jr. and Philip J. Meranto,Electing Black Mayors: Political Action in the Black Community (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1977), pp. 337–340; Phil W. Petrie, “Do Black Mayors Make a Difference?”Black Enterprise 9 (July 1979): 25–33; Michael B. Preston, Lenneal J. Henderson, Jr., and Paul Puryear,The New Black Politics: The Search for Political Power (New York: Longman, 1982), pp. 157–237.

New OrleansTimes-Picayune, February 23, 1983, p. 15; New OrleansTimes-Picayune, May 1, 1983, p. 18.

Allen Johnson, Jr., “Obstacles Remain But the Black Business Community is Optimistic About the Future,”Citybusiness, November 14, 1983, p. 10.

Allan Katz, “N.O.’s Black Underclass,” New OrleansTimes-Picayune, February 7, 1982, p. 33; see Daniel C. Thompson and Barbara G. Thompson, “The Black Underclass: A Continuing Saga, Part I,”Black Southerner 1 (1983): 21–24.

Times-Picayune, January 6, 1984, p. 1; New OrleansTimes-Picayune, April 5, 1981, p. 1.

Katz, “N.O.’s Black Underclass,” p. 33.

See Alvin J. Schexnider, “Political Mobilization in the South: The Election of a Black Mayor in New Orleans,” inThe New Black Politics: The Search for Political Power, ed. Michael B. Preston, Lenneal J. Henderson, Jr., and Paul Puryear (New York: Longman, 1982), pp. 222–227; Tom Dent, “New Orleans Versus Atlanta: Power to the Parade,”Southern Exposure 7 (Spring 1979): 64–68.

Bette Woody, “The New Urban Politics and Black Mayors: A Tale of Three Cities,” inManaging Crisis Cities (unpublished manuscript, 1982), p. 53.

Alex Poinsett, “Running New Orleans is No Mardi Gras,”Ebony 33 (December 1978): 33.

Washington Post, April 23, 1978, p. A12.

Times-Picayune, October 16, 1982, p. 15.

Allan Katz, “In Search of Money,” New OrleansTimes-Picayune, June 12, 1983, p. 27.

James Gillis, “Blacks Voted For Sales Tax,” New OrleansTimes-Picayune, June 11, 1982, p. 13.

Times-Picayune, September 13, 1982, p. 1.

Ernest N. Mortal, “Reviewing New Orleans’ Revenue Bases,”Banquette (December 1983/January 1984): 2.

David Pace, “The Mayor Mends Fences,”Times-Picayune, July 23, 1983, sec. 5, p. 4.

T. D. Allman, “Urban Politics: Poor Must Pay,”Black Enterprise 11 (October 1980): 22.

Mayor’s Office of Economic Development,New Orleans-Economic Development Strategy, May 1979, p. 2.

Allman, “Urban Politics: Poor Must Pay,” p. 22.

Iris Kelso, “Plant Successfully Wooed,”Times-Picayune, January 27, 1983, p. 11.

Gregory D. Squires, “Investment Policy for Economic Revitalization,”Focus 11 (August 1983): 4–5.

Poinsett, “Running New Orleans is No Mardi Gras,” p. 34.

Button, “Southern Black Elected Officials: Impact on Socioeconomic Change,” p. 33.

Edmund Newton, “Taking Over City Hall,”Black Enterprise 13 (June 1983), 159; see Peter K. Eisinger, “Black Employment in Municipal Jobs: The Impact of Black Political Power,”American Political Science Review 76 (June 1982): 380–392.

Newton, “Taking Over City Hall,” p. 159.

Johnson, Jr., “Obstacles Remain But the Black Business Community is Optimistic About the Future,” p. 12.

Times-Picayune, September 7, 1983, p. 17.

Letter from Austin F. Penney, Jr., director, Office of Housing and Community Development, City of New Orleans, December 5, 1983.

Louisiana Weekly, February 6, 1982, p. 1.

Tom Wicker, “Affirmative Inaction,”Times-Picayune, April 25, 1983, p. 11.

Times-Picayune, August 25, 1983, p. 14.

Times-Picayune, January 26, 1984, p. 15;Times-Picayune, November 10, 1983, p. 21.

Dallas Morning News, April 4, 1983, pp. 1, 12A.

Keith M. Woods, “New Orleans Cops on Trial,”Black Enterprise 13 (March 1983): 23.

Times-Picayune, January 26, 1982, p. 11.

Kalamu ya Salaam, “In the Face of Oppression: A Case Study of New Orleans,”Black Scholar 12 (January–February 1981): 65.

Button, “Southern Black Elected Officials: Impact on Socioeconomic Change,” p. 43.

Manning Marable,From the Grassroots: Social and Political Essays Towards Afro-American Liberation (Boston: South End Press, 1980), p. 224.

Allan Katz, “Morial Licks His Wounds,”Times-Picayune, December 19, 1982, p. 23;Times-Picayune, May 6, 1983, p. 15.

James H. Gillis, “Is Home Rule in Danger?”Times-Picayune, June 18, 1982, p. 15.

Interview with Joan Crockett, August 29, 1983.

Louisiana Weekly, August 13, 1983, p. 5.

Iris Kelso, “Conversative Black Hopefuls,”Times-Picayune, November 8, 1981, p. 21.

Times-Picayune, August 9, 1983, p. 18.

Petrie, “Do Black Mayors Make a Difference?”, p. 31.

Douglas Rose and Paul Stekler, “An Exit Poll of the Black Electorate,”Gambit, October 29, 1983, p. 20.

Newsweek, 102 (August 29, 1983): 16.