Carol Moseley Braun
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Whatever else her future accomplishments, Carol Moseley Braun earned her footnote in American history in November 1992 by becoming the first black woman elected to the United States Senate. Half a year earlier, she had earned a smaller reference book mention by becoming the first female African-American nominee for the position, a candidate of the Democratic Party in an election year when post-Persian Gulf War victory euphoria was supposed to have been the harbinger of a Republican Party, President-on-down sweep of the electorate. How she came to achieve this distinction - and how the popular national print media reported the topic - will be the subjects of this commentary. Born Carol Moseley forty-five years ago, the daughter of a police officer and a medical technician, the future Senator from Illinois was the eldest of four children in a solidly middle class, Catholic family in an all-black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side. The "Catholic" distinction is somewhat important: it separates the Moseleys from the mainstream of Protestant-affiliated black American culture, representing an emphasis on education via the highly-respected Catholic parochial school system, as opposed to the less disciplined public schools; it also indicates an affiliation with the Irish Catholic political machinery that dominated Chicago politics up until the mid-1970s and the death of Ward Politician-supreme, the legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley. With her late father, Joe Moseley, a law en
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ortifying (Haynes, p. 121).
She was not alone in her feelings. When Illinois' Alan Dixon stood up on the Senate floor and declared for confirmation of Clarence Thomas as a Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, breaking with the Democratic Party to give Republican president George Bush a 52-48 narrow victory, howls of outrage echoed across the state's political landscape - and into Carol Moseley Braun's living room. "Al the Pal" Dixon, two term Senator and Chicago political figure for 42 years (Patner, 1992, P. 365), may have figured that having the Democratic Party political machine supporting him was all that was needed, but he seriously misjudged the mood of his constituency. Moseley Braun was more receptive, or, as she relates it, "By the time I got a letter from a White (sic) man in a Republican county urging me to run (against Dixon for the 1992 Democratic Party Senate nomination), I knew there was something up and I really ought to consider this seriously (Haynes, p. 121)."
She did but, with no campaign war chest or political machine backing, few in the professional world of politics and media considered her a serious contender. Moseley Braun's announcement of her candidacy barely made the six o'clock Chicago news. More
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