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Carl B. Stokes and the rise of Black political power
By Moore, Leonard Joseph
- ISBN
- 978-0-25202-760-4
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2002.
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Reviewed on August 12, 2002
In 1967, Carl Burton Stokes (1927-96) became the first African American elected a big-city mayor. His two four-year terms as Cleveland's leader (beginning in 1967 and 1971) marked not merely the city's turnaround from near death but a shift in the Civil Rights Movement, black life, and big-city politics, argues Moore (history, Louisiana State Univ.). Deftly mixing biography with local urban history, Moore details Stokes's struggle...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
