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• Nikki Tinker, Corporate Mammy

  Published: September 1, 2007, 9:41 pm

  Tags: Thaddeus Matthews, Israel Lebanon Conflict, Corporate Whore, Willie Herenton, Ida B Wells, Ed Crump, Maxine Smith, Nikki Tinker, The Black Church, Harold Ford Jr, Dlc, Homophobia, Tennessee, Israel Lobby, Tennessee Politics, Harold Ford Sr, Jake Ford, Steve Cohen, Memphis

  Memphis blacks continued chafing under the dictatorial rule of E.H. “Ed” Crump, the local political boss who ruled both Memphis and Tennessee for over forty years. Crump ran a sophisticated operation in which his operatives paid the poll taxes of African Americans and he voted them for his slate of candidates. Crump

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