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Biography of David Dinkins
Name: David Dinkins
Birth Date: July 10, 1927
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: attorney, municipal government official, state legislator
David Dinkins
After defeating incumbent Mayor Edward I. Koch in New York's 1989 Democratic mayoral primary, David Dinkins (born 1927) went on in November to defeat Rudolph Giuliani and become the first African American mayor of New York City.Calm, elegant, deliberate, and dignified, David N. Dinkins overcame the suspicions of many white New Yorkers that he lacked leadership qualifications and in November of 1989 was elected the first black mayor of the United States' largest city. After announcing his candidacy in February, Dinkins became the beneficiary of a changing public attitude, one exhausted with racial strife and adjustments caused by a constricting economy. Drawing heavily on his political stronghold in Harlem, the career politician and lifelong Democrat defeated incumbent Mayor Edward I. Koch in September. In the general election he was victorious over a political neophyte, the popular district attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani. Once in office, Dinkins faced the intimidating task of healing a …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Price (1927-) American opera singerRichard Riordan (1930-) American mayorH. Ross Perot (1930-) American tycoonL. Douglas Wilder (1931-) American governorSelected world events:1931: Empire State Building opened in New York City1942: FDR signed Executive Order forcing Japanese-Americans into camps1957: U.S. Civil Rights Commission established1964: Civil Rights Act abolishes segregation throughout the southern United States1968: Chicago police beat demonstrators at Democratic Convention1970: 300,000 black children integrated in southern schools1974: Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record1980: John Lennon murdered outside Dakota apartments in New York1990: Population of New York reached 14 million1993: Terrorist bomb exploded at New York's World Trade Center Further Reading periodicalsBlack Enterprise, November 1989.Detroit Free Press, January 5, 1992.Economist, November 11, 1989.Emerge, November 1991.Jet, August 28, 1995, p. 6.Newsday, October 28, 1989.Newsweek, May 28, 1990.New York, November 5, 1990; November 11, 1991; May 25, 1992.New Yorker, July 20, 1992; November 15, 1993, pp. 52-59.New York Times, September 13, 1989; September 14, 1989; October 20, 1989; October 26, 1989; October 28, 1989; November 2, 1989; November 8, 1989; January 2, 1990; September 13, 1990; January 9, 1991; February 4, 1991; April 7, 1991; May 11, 1991; June 24, 1991 January 3, 1992; May 6, 1992; May 11, 1992, December 23, 1995, p. 29.Wall Street Journal, October 28, 1989.
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