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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19960316
Author:DON TERRY

The Frederick Douglass Crusaders, a tiny group of black Republicans on the city's south side, are still mourning what might have been: a black renaissance within the Grand Old Party born of a presidential candidacy by Gen. Colin Powell.

Had Powell run, the Crusaders believe, their lonely days in the party would have been over.

"A lot of black people would have become Republicans overnight," said Charles Gaines, the group's white-haired chairman who is 72 and has been a Republican for most of his life. "It would have been like the old days, when black people wouldn't think of voting for a ...

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