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NEWS
November 19, 1992
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History made
in the 11th
District
McKinney
elected to Congress
Cynthia McKinney
By Jayme L. Bradford
News Editor
Cynthia McKinney became the first African American woman
in America’s political history to become Congresswoman for the 11th
District.
The Associated Press declared her the winner by 68 percent.
“This is the most significant and important victory politically since
the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965,” said Tyrone Brooks,
McKinney’s campaign chairman.
“There’s a lady in the House,” supporters shouted at the headquar
ters located in Decatur.
She won the race against Woodrow Lovett, a Burke County farmer.
“We didn’t realize at the time that we were making history. Georgia
was ready for a change. You can’t get more a change than Cynthia
McKinney,” she said.
According to representative for the City of Atlanta, Nan Orrock,
McKinney has a grasp on the issues and understands their concerns.
“Look like we have changed the country and the state in one day. We
put the United States in the progressive from the conservative,” said
Stewart Acuff, president of Atlanta's Labor Council.
The former state representative, rejoined her father, Billy McKinney,
to remain the first father-and-daughter legislative team in the country.
Dennis Kimbro heads new
CAU entrepreneurship center
Luqman Farid
Staff Writer
What are the keys to success?
Dr. Dennis Kimbro, author of
the best-selling book. Think and
Grow Rich: A Black Choice, offers
the answer to students as direc
tor of Clark Atlanta University’s
Center for Entrepreneurship.
The New Jersey native, went
from to a $ 55,000-a-year job to
a best-selling author.
HisB.A. andM.A. degrees were
earned from the University of
Oklahoma and Northwestern
University. He later received his
Ph.D. in political science from
Northwestern, were he studied
wealth and poverty in underde
veloped countries.
Kimbro turned his attention to
wealth and poverty in this coun
try in 1985. His discoveries re
sulted in his first book Think and
Grow Rich: A Black Choice.
“I was looking for the keys to
success,” he said. “Therefore, I
began to align myself with suc
cessful people.”
Think and Grow Rich, now in
its eleventh printing, is the No. 1
selling non-fiction book among
African Americans. Kimbro said
nobody has written a book like
Dr. Dennis Kimbro
Photo By Curtis McDowell
this for African Americans and
there is definitely a need in the
community.
While interviewing success
ful African Americans for the
book, Kimbro met with a lot of
adversity. He said it took
months to interview one per
son and all of his money to
travel to these interviews.
In 1987, Kimbro left his job
as a pharmaceutical represen
tative, to devote all of his at
tention to his book.
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