This former Cleveland mayor, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, died in 1996
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Carl Stokes - News Anchor, Mayor, Lawyer - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... ... the first African American elected to mayor in a major U.S. city on ... News Anchor, Mayor, Lawyer (19271996) ... Carl Stokes served as the Cleveland, Ohio's mayor from 1967 to ... His father died when Stokes was young.
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Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city: Black ...  Feb 20, 2011 ... Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city: Black ... Stokes served on the Cleveland Municipal Court from 1983 to 1994. His judgeship made him the nation's first black person to be directly elected to all three branches ... Stokes died from complications of esophagus cancer on April 3, 1996.
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CNN - U.S. News Briefs - April 3, 1996  Apr 3, 1996 ... Carl Stokes, former Cleveland mayor, dead at 68 ... Stokes, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, died of cancer early Wednesday.
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Carl Stokes, 68, Dies; Precedent-Setting Mayor - The New York Times  Apr 4, 1996 ... Carl Stokes, 68, Dies; Precedent-Setting Mayor. Carl B. Stokes, whose election as the first black mayor of a major city in 1967 became a symbol of a changing America, died early yesterday in Cleveland. He was 68.
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Carl Stokes - Wikipedia  Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927  April 3, 1996) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city.
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CNN - Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young dies at 79 - November ...  Nov 29, 1997 ... DETROIT (CNN) -- Former five-term Mayor Coleman Young -- Detroit's ... to become the Democratic floor leader, and in 1968, he became the first black chosen to represent Michigan on the Democratic National Committee.
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African-American Civil Rights Movement (18961954) - Wikipedia  The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a long, primarily nonviolent series of ... That effort was largely ended by the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil .... the first African American to play professional sports in the major leagues. ..... of leaders in cities such as Chicago, Washington, and New York, whose black...
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Jane Byrne dies at 81; Chicago's first female mayor - LA Times  Nov 14, 2014 ... Byrne, whose four-year term was filled with upheaval at City Hall, died ... Jane Byrne, first and only female mayor of Chicago, dies at 81 ... city's history and become its first and only female mayor, died Friday. ... In 1983, Byrne lost her reelection bid to state Sen. Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor.
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David Dinkins - Wikipedia  David Norman Dinkins (born July 10, 1927) is an American politician who served as the 106th Mayor of New York City, from 1990 to 1993. He was the first and, to date, only African American to hold that office. ... Dinkins was elected mayor of New York City on November 7, 1989, defeating three-term incumbent mayor Ed...
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Harold Washington - Mayor, U.S. Representative - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... Harold Washington became the first African-American mayor of Chicago in 1983. ... He grew up in the city he spent his career trying to helpChicago. ... In 1965, Washington won election to the Illinois House of Representatives. ... On April 12, 1983, Washington made history when he won more than 50...
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HARDY WILLIAMS, 1931-2010 An African American pioneer He ...  Jan 8, 2010 ... "There were others elected before him," Rendell said, "but they were selected by ... In 1971, he lost in the Democratic primary to former Police ... How he did so was a bit of Philly-style politics. ... today, the city's mayor, district attorney, police commissioner, and schools superintendent are African Americans.
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Introducing: Ron Kirk first black mayor of Dallas  Elaborates on the run-up to the May 6, 1995 elections for the Mayor of Dallas, ... First black mayor of a major Texas city; Population of Dallas; Agenda of Kirk;...
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A Brief History Of African Americans In Washington, DC - www ...  The first black municipal office holder was elected in 1868. When Washington briefly became a federal territory in 1871, African American ... By 1900 Washington had the largest percentage of African Americans of any city in the nation. ... In 1957 Washington's African American population surpassed the 50 percent mark,...
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Civil Rights Leaders- Kweisi Mfume - Black History  Kweisi Mfume past president of the NAACP and former congressman ... at the Community College of Baltimore, where he served as head of the Black Student Union. ... In February 1996, Mfume left the House to accept the presidency of the National ... of Colored People, America's largest and oldest civil rights organization.
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Edward I. Koch, Mayor as Brash as His City, Dies at 88 - The New ...  Feb 1, 2013 ... Mr. Koch, a showman of City Hall, was a three-term mayor who steered New York City through the fiscal austerity of the late 1970s and the racial conflicts of the 1980s. ... His political odyssey took him from independent-minded liberal to .... on to beat Mr. Giuliani, who ran on the Republican and Liberal lines,...
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A bridge for Ron Kirk, the city's first black mayor, is only fitting | News ...  Jun 3, 2016 ... A bridge for Ron Kirk, the city's first black mayor, is only fitting. Filed under ... His election as Dallas' mayor in 1995 was historic. And his two...
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Douglas Wilder - Governor, Mayor - Biography.com  Feb 14, 2016 ... Find out more about the life of Douglas Wilder, the first African American ... office in Virginia, and to be elected governor in the U.S., at Biography.com. ... Lawrence Douglas Wilder was born on January 17, 1931, in the former...
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People | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed - BlackPast.org  History Type: ..... William James Bill Powell was born on November 16, 1922, in Greenville, ..... became the first African-American elected to the Carson City Council. ..... After graduating from high school he attended Loyola Marymount University ...... Reed, whose family moved to Renton, Washington, played football at...
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Carl Stokes, 68, Dies; Precedent-Setting Mayor - The New York Times  Apr 4, 1996 ... Mr. Stokes became the first black Democrat elected to the Legislature in ... The problems of poverty and discrimination in American cities, he had said, ... When Cleveland went into default in 1978, Mayor George Voinovich ... Last year, President Clinton appointed him Ambassador to the .... Create Account.
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CBS Cleveland  ... city of Cleveland was actually founded by General Moses Cleaveland in 1796. ... but many of the best parts of the city can't be properly enjoyed while driving.
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Hundreds Mourn First Black to Lead Major City - latimes  Nov 2, 2003 ... ... Walter E. Washington, a slave's great-grandson, who became the first black person to lead a major U.S.. ... IN BRIEF / WASHINGTON, D.C. ... Seven years later, he became the first elected mayor in the national capital in...