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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.
The Stockbridge city council has five councilmembers, holding council meetings on the second Monday of each month. As of February 2020, the current mayor of Stockbridge is Anthony S. Ford, whose term expires on December 31, 2021. [14] [15]
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]
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 .
59th mayor of Atlanta lived in Atlanta Randolph W. Thrower: former commissioner of Internal Revenue: lived in Atlanta Conrad Tillard: politician, Baptist minister, radio host, author, and activist Raphael Warnock: first African American US senator of Georgia lived and pastored in Atlanta [95] Charline White
Detroit's first Black mayor took office 50 years ago in January. One off-the-cuff line in his inaugural speech has been debated ever since. Flashback: What Coleman Young really meant when he said ...
Robert Clayton Henry (July 16, 1921 – September 8, 1981) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Springfield, Ohio from 1966 to 1968 as one of the first black mayors of a midwestern city; however, this achievement is frequently overshadowed by fellow African American mayor Carl B. Stokes, who was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967.
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