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Did you know... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell(pictured) was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of
Mississippi?
I look forward to seeing this article expanded! Blackwell seems very interesting! A few notes on sources:
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Awadewit (
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This source is an advertisement from the publisher. I think a book review would be better. Perhaps something like
this? - I changed that reference.
I hope my copy editing efforts were helpful.
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Thank you very much for all your help on this article. :D --
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In the "Political career and later life" section: "The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sent Blackwell and three other delegates to the 1964 Democratic National Convention in New Jersey." There were 68 total delegates (Blackwell and 67 others). I didn't change it because I don't have access to the cited James Haskins book.
Fishlandia (
talk) 16:55, 21 January 2018 (UTC)reply
@
Fishlandia: I'll look into this when I can find the time, if I don't reply here within a few days or if you find a good source to refute this, just use the {{
ping|Coffee}} template. Thanks for the heads up! —
Coffee //
have a ☕️ //
beans // 17:02, 21 January 2018 (UTC)reply
Thank you! There are many sources. I'll ping you.
Fishlandia (
talk) 18:08, 21 January 2018 (UTC)reply
@
Coffee: (<-- neat! thanks), here are two books and an article:
"
A Delegate Situation" by Vern Smith. The Crisis magazine, September 2004, p. 34
Another question for when you have time. In the "Early life" section she's called Unita Blackwell and Blackwell, though she wasn't married to Mr. Blackwell yet. Her maiden name was Brown and her parents are named here. Should she be Unita Brown and Brown in this section?
Fishlandia (
talk) 00:36, 22 January 2018 (UTC)reply
@
Fishlandia: That's just the standard way our encyclopedia mentions the subject of the article even though they were not using their current name at that time. As far as the other issue, I've Fixed the amount of delegates and added the three awesome references you found for this article. Thank you very much for your help, we don't get enough people who update civil rights leader's articles around here unfortunately. So I hope you decide to stay around the place! Please don't hesitate to contact me on my user talkpage if you have any questions... or you can always just send me a ping. Hope to see you around! —
Coffee //
have a ☕️ //
beans // 03:56, 22 January 2018 (UTC)reply