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The first African-American mayors were elected during Reconstruction in the Southern United States beginning about 1867. African Americans in the South were also elected to many local offices, such as sheriff and Justice of the Peace, and state offices such as legislatures as well as a smaller number of federal offices.
Pages in category "African-American mayors in Indiana" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Stokes was the first elected African American mayor of a major American city (Cleveland was, at the time, the ninth largest city in the United States). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His election came alongside the election of Richard G. Hatcher in the 1967 Gary, Indiana, mayoral election .
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 ...
Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927 – April 3, 1996) was an American politician and diplomat 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 one of the first black elected mayors of a major U.S. city. [a]
[2] [4] Lash's father went on to become Salisbury's first Black mayor from 1981 to 1985. [4] Jones graduated from Fisk University in 1956 with a bachelor's degree in business management. [1] [3] While at Fisk, she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha. [2] She earned a graduate degree (1979) and a doctorate in American studies (1983) at Case Western Reserve ...
The Free Press steered away from the 8-Mile angle but made it clear Young had ordered criminals to leave Detroit. Mayor Coleman Young enters his office for the first time on Jan. 3, 1974 at the ...
Nellie Babcock, first woman mayor of Rochester, Indiana [124] 1957. Mary Jancosek Bercik, first woman mayor of Whiting, Indiana [125] 1964. Margaret H. Prickett, first woman elected mayor of Mishawaka, Indiana [126] 1980. Patricia Logan, first woman elected mayor of Noblesville, Indiana. 1999. Shirley Robb, first woman elected mayor of ...