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First African-American female mayor of a major Southern city, and first woman to be elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia: Shirley Franklin [86] First African American and first woman to be elected mayor of Southfield, Michigan: Brenda L. Lawrence; First African American elected mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina: Marshall Pitts Jr. [87]
Pages in category "African-American mayors in Indiana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Mobile view ...
Richard Gordon Hatcher (July 10, 1933 – December 13, 2019) was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. At the time of his first election on November 7, 1967, he and Carl Stokes were the first African Americans to be elected mayors of a U.S. city with ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Fort Wayne Councilwoman Sharon Tucker was chosen Saturday as the new mayor of Indiana’s second most populous city, and its first Black leader, during a caucus to ...
Pages in category "Lists of mayors of places in Indiana" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Mobile view ...
The 1967 Gary, Indiana, mayoral election, held on November 7, saw the election of Richard G. Hatcher. This was, along with the coinciding election in Cleveland, Ohio , the first election of an African American as mayor of an American city with a population over 100,000. [ 1 ]
A statue of Richard G. Hatcher was installed outside Gary City Hall, in Gary, Indiana, in 2019. [1] [2] Artist Gary Tillery sculpted the statue. [3] ... Mobile view ...
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