Dreams Deferred   What resurrected it was the Voting Rights Act
of 1965. That particular contribution of the civil rights revolt
of the 1960s— sometimes called the Second Reconstruction—had a
dramatic and almost immediate effect. In 1970 the Negro Almanac
counted some 1,300 black officials, including 10
representatives, 1 state treasurer, 48 mayors, 168 state
legislators, and hundreds of city officials, school-board
members, judges, and law-enforcement officials. Now, twenty
years later, the totals are much higher, the black vote is a
significant force in Southern and metropolitan politics, and
plainly a growing percentage of white voters seems willing to be
color-blind.  This is a long way short of full representation.
Any rosiness of outlook is dampened by the stark facts of black
America’s economic and social disasters. Yet the new generation
of black officeholders is larger, sawier, and more securely
entrenched than that of the first Reconstruction, and it’s clear
as of now that history will not record a