Cynthia Ann McKinney, State Representative for Fulton County

At Large, is currently serving her second term. Cynthia represents the
largest district in the Georgia General Assembly, a constituency of over
640,000 persons. In her winning General Election, Cynthia captured an
unprecedented 125,682 votes.

Cynthia's political vision extends from basic civil rights, such as
privacy issues and a woman's right to choose, to equal opportunity in the
marketplace, particularly for minority- and women-owned businesses.
She has also sponsored or co-sponsored legislation dealing with cleaning
up Georgia's environment. She is particularly interested in changing
Georgia's tax laws so as to allow for a portion of state gasoline tax
revenues to be used to build a commuter rail system linking Georgia's
major urban areas by high-speed trains. Her most recent efforts have
centered around reapportionment and the struggle to provide access to
fair and equitable representation for all Georgia citizens. Cynthia's
tenure as a State Representative has been marked by controversy because
of her readiness to fight for her beliefs and the people she represents.

Cynthia gained her dedication to civil rights issues as a result of her
earty exposure to the civil rights movement. Her concern for health care
stems from her mother who worked as a nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital
for almost 40 years and who witnessed the day-to-day difflculties faced
by a health care system that is stretched to its limit, therefore limiting
basic access for the average Georgian. As a single parent, she understands
the importance of child care to mobility in and access to meaningful
participation in this country's work force. And finally, as an educator, she
has seen both the process and the product of a public education system
that puts our most cherished asset--our children-at risk.

Cynthia's undergraduate institution was the University of Southern
California. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy. She has done additional study at Georgia State
University and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She has worked in
Georgia's Senate Offlce on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C., at Spelman
College as a Diplomatic Fellow, and has taught at Clark Atlanta University
and Atlan1a Metropolitan College. She currently teaches at Agnes Scott
College, a women's college in Dekalb County.

Cynthia is the daughter of State Representative Billy McKinney who
together constitute the only father-daughter legislative team in the
United States.

THE DISTRICT

The heart of the 11th Congressional District lies in Georgia's
rural eastern blackbelt. While Hancock County might serve as a rural
South Dekalb County, a portion of Richmond County, and a portion of
Chatham County. Drawn as a result of Georgia's population growth and the
exigencies of the Voting Rights Act, the 11 th District has a black voting
age population of near 60xh and a total black population of 64%. The
breakdown of the district by total population is as follows:

South Dekalb County  35%
Richmond County      15%
Chatham County       14%
Hancock Hub          10%

In the 1990 Andrew Young/Zell Miller Democratic Primary Runoff, Young
scored an overwhelming victory in District 11 with 58% of the vote. And,
in the 1990 General Election, the Democratic Party's nominee (Miller) won
in the 11th District with 70% of the vote. Georgia's 11th
Congressional District is clearly one in which a black Democrat
will win.

While peppered with a few examples of astonishing affluence, the 11th
District is far from being a wealthy district. The real story of Georgia's
11th Congressional District is one of high political and economic
aspirations, but sadly, of real political and economic neglect. In Hancock
County, our rural hub, nearly 40% of all households had an annual income in
1986 of less than $10,000. In such a district, voter registration must
command the concern of a winning campaign effort. Despite the
overwhelming success of Young and Miller in District 11, only 53% of the
black voting age population is registered. A voter registration effort will
be a major component of the Cynthia McKinney campaign.

No other candidate has the track record of concern and advocacy that is so
direly needed by the residents of Georgia's 11th Congressional District.