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Foreword / by Dr. Pearl K. Dowe -- "An Opportunity for Us to Rise": Winning and Governing in Cities / Sharon D. Wright Austin -- "Let This 'Little Girl' Come in and Clean It Up": Dierdre Waterman of Pontiac and Karen Weaver of Flint / Sharon D. Wright Austin and Marcella Mulholland -- "Progress Comes at a Price": Aja Brown and Acquanetta Warren Govern California Cities / Precious Hall and Sharon D. Wright Austin -- "We Can't Turn a Blind Eye to Change": Mayor Lovely Warren of Rochester, New York / Angela K. Lewis-Maddox and Stephanie Y. Pink-Harper -- "Others May Not Be Able to See What I See Now": Black Female Mayors in Florida / Ashley Robertson Preston, LaRaven Temoney and Kelly Briana Richardson -- "There's No Job Too Big to Benefit from a Small Town Person's Perspective": African American Female Mayors in the Mississippi Delta / Emmitt Y. Riley III, Minion K. C. Morrison, and Yolanda Jones -- "A Woman Whose Father Didn't Graduate from High School Can Become This City's First Female African American Mayor": Mayor Vi Lyles of Charlotte / Andrea Benjamin -- "When We Ignore the Will of the People, The People Lose": The Improbable Election of Lori Lightfoot in Chicago / Valerie C. Johnson -- "I'd Rather Go Down Fighting Than Stand as a Loser" : Atlanta Mayors Shirley Franklin and Keisha Lance Bottoms / Fatemeh Shafiei and Sharon D. Wright Austin -- "Baltimore Must Develop an Inclusive Solution That Does Not Leave Anyone Out": Black Female Mayors in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter / Jamil Scott, Nadia E. Brown, and Christina Greer -- "The Frustrations Have Been Festering for 12 Years": Washington, D.C. Mayors Sharon Pratt and Muriel Bowser / Linda Trautman -- "Leadership Is Not About Winning a Popularity Contest": Louisiana's Black Female Mayors / Sharon D. Wright Austin, Taisha Saintil, and Lauren King -- "If You Only Knew What I Had to Go Through to Get Here": London Breed, Political Black Womanism, and San Francisco Politics / James Lance Taylor -- "You Have to Work Together": Lessons Learned from Black Female Mayoral Experiences / Sharon D. Wright Austin. |
