In 1989, Bill Lynch ran the campaign that ended with David Dinkins being elected the city's first black Mayor, using the headquarters of the giant health-care workers union known as 1199 as his base of operations.
Mr. Lynch and Mr. Dinkins have since passed on, and Dennis Rivera, then the recently elected president of 1199 who was about to restore the dynamism that had led Martin Luther King Jr. to call it his favorite union two decades earlier, has since retired.
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