Abstract

Black leaders shift from the of protest to the of the ballot box, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is often viewed as a visible and concrete manifestation of black political power. For that reason alone, the CBC (composed of the seventeen black members of the House of Representatives1) should receive careful scrutiny it is one direction of black political strategy and presumably, as more blacks are elected to political office, it is a harbinger of things to come. If, as many believe, the CBC is the most powerful contemporary black political organization, analysis will reveal basic constraints and opportunities involved in reliance on electoral politics and the political process to achieve black ends. Ironically just at the time when a theoretical framework is most needed to elucidate

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