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How small a town? When are the town's festivals? Are there special events that draw a largely black crowd, or a very integrated one? Could your local Party perhaps create an event, if one doesn't exist already, that would draw people? One where you could call on those same un-interested ministers to perhaps give a speech in commemoration of some important event or person and where you could put out a community-wide call for student art to decorate and student essays to get awards? If an event already exists, then maybe local Party members could be co-sponsors.
And it might help to get out in the black part of town and just start shaking hands and asking people how the Democratic Party can help them get involved. Be sure to publicize the contact phone numbers and member names so that people who get mad about something and want to volunteer will be able to call before the feeling passes! Find the black businesses and talk to the owners. Those will be the people who would be interested in gaining access to the corridors of power, and who will switch to the Republicans if they aren't actively recruited.
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