McKinney graduated from St. In she served as a diplomatic fellow at Spelman College in Atlanta. The couple had a son, Coy Jr. In Billy McKinney registered his daughter as a candidate for the Georgia state house of representatives without her knowledge. She lost that race to the incumbent but, without even campaigning, won 20 percent of the vote on name recognition alone. I was a chip off the old block, a maverick. During the late s, McKinney and other Georgia legislators pressed the U.
Justice Department to create additional majority-Black congressional districts so that African-American voters would have more equitable representation. In the Georgia legislature created two additional majority-Black districts Georgia previously had only one and McKinney chose to run in the sprawling mile-long district that included much of DeKalb County east of Atlanta to Augusta and extended southward to the coastal city of Savannah, encompassing or cutting through 22 counties, and both inner cities and rural communities.
McKinney moved into the new district, and her father managed her campaign. In the five-way Democratic primary, McKinney used a strong grassroots network to place first, with 31 percent of the vote.
It brings a level of sensitivity that has not been there. Over the next several Congresses she received seats on several other panels.
In the th Congress — she won a spot on the Banking and Finance Committee, where she served two terms. McKinney quickly became known by her trademark pair of gold tennis shoes and her Mickey Mouse watch. McKinney had cultivated her unapologetic legislative style in the Georgia state house, and she brought it with her to Congress.
She later claimed the remark was part of a draft press release not intended for public distribution, but she did push the William J.
Bill Clinton administration to investigate charges of discrimination in the Secret Service. In the House, McKinney advocated for poor and working-class Americans and spoke out on issues ranging from human rights abuses abroad to social inequities at home. She also opposed federal efforts to restrict access to abortions—particularly a long-standing measure known as the Hyde Amendment that largely eliminated Medicaid coverage for abortions.
Although McKinney was forced to run in a majority-white district, the political network that figured heavily in her previous campaigns helped her prevail against Republican challenger John M. Mitnick, with 58 percent of the vote. Reapportionment in placed McKinney in a district that again was predominantly African American roughly 53 percent of the population. On the International Relations Committee, where she eventually served as the Ranking Member on the International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee, McKinney tried to curb weapons sales to countries that violated human rights—sponsoring the Arms Transfers Code of Conduct, which passed the House in , to prevent the sale of weapons to dictators.
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