Bill Zimmerman and Marilyn Katz were the media consultants to Harold Washington’s 1983 campaign.

Bill Zimmerman is president of Zimmerman & Markman, Inc., a California-based political consulting firm. He is the author, most recently, of Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties, Anchor Books, 2012

Marilyn Katz is the founder and president of Chicago-based MK Communications. Learn more about Marilyn and read her other writing for In These Times here.

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Harold Washington and the Elephant in the Room
An untold tale of taking on the issue of race during the '83 campaign.
Marilyn Katz and Bill Zimmerman