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The Illinois Supreme Court upholds a lower-court decision to bar the Harold Washington Party from the Cook County November election ballot.
1990 (Oct 19)
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld a lower-court decision to bar the Harold Washington Party from Cook County's November election ballot. The four Democratic judges voted against including the primarily Black party, while the three Republicans voted for its inclusion. Democrats had been concerned about losing votes to the party, named in honor of the late Democratic mayor of Chicago, while Republicans anticipated gaining a majority of votes as a result. The Washington Party subsequently urged its supporters either to boycott the election or to vote Republican in protest of the Democratic opposition.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.