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  • 1 - The Historical Foundations of Community Commitment

  • Julian J. Wamble, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    We Choose You
    Published online:
    06 February 2025
    Print publication:
    13 February 2025, pp 23-45

  • Summary

    This chapter asks the question: Where did Black individuals' desire for community commitment come from? The answer this, I draw on numerous primary and secondary sources starting in the Reconstruction era to show where Black voters' expectations of those representing them came from and how they shifted over time. The latter part of the chapter focuses on the Civil Rights Movement out of which many Black voters received the right to engage in politics. I contend that these new rights and those who helped acquire them for the Black community created the lens through which most Black people see effective leadership today, and solidified the desire for representatives willing to put their lives on the line for the sake of the racial group's progress.