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    • Ray Flynn's Legacy: American Cities and the Progressive Agenda 

      Dreier, Peter (1993)
      Raymond Flynn won Boston's mayoralty in 1983 after a virtual tie in the preliminary election, as he and Mel King led a field of nine, each with approximately 29 percent of the votes. Both were neighborhood activists who ...

    • Transformative Populism and the Development of Community of Color 

      Kennedy, Marie; Tilly, Chris; Gaston, Mauricio (Temple University Press, 1990)
      Kennedy was a supporter and key worker in Mel King's 1983 Boston mayoral campaign. King had projected a vision of populism that the authors describe as "transformative," in contrast to that of Ray Flynn's "redistributive ...