signed CARL B. STOKES 1st black mayor of major US city Speech & OLIVER NELSON
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CARL B. STOKES
The Mayor & The People
w/ OLIVER NELSON & Orchestra
FLYING DUTCHMAN STEREO SDS-130
SIGNED (by Mayor Stokes)on a sticker attatched to the record
TO: Archie Rothman WERE radio
& STILL SEALED!
side 1: The Mayor And The People Press Conference 26:20
side 2: A Black Suite For String Quartet And Jazz Orchestra 17:47 ( by Oliver Nelson & Orchestra)
Below From WIKIPEDIA
Elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1962, he served three terms. Stokes worked hard to even out legislative districts. Then, Ohio had uneven representation among its Congressional and General Assembly districts. By the late 1960s, he was able to carve out a district that could elect him to Congress, but deferred to his brother Louis Stokes who represented Cleveland in the US House of Representatives for three decades. Stokes narrowly lost a bid for mayor of Cleveland in 1965. His victory two years later drew national attention, as he was the first African-American mayor of one of the ten biggest cities in the United States.[1]
Able to mobilize both black and white voters, he defeated Seth Taft, the grandson of a former US president, with a 50.5%. A crucial part of his support came from businessmen living outside the city limits of Cleveland, especially Squire, Sanders and Dempsey lawyers Ralph Besse and Elmer Lindseth who were directors and officers of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company and wanted Stokes to deemphasize the City's Municipal Electric and Light Plant. Stokes tried to de-emphasize the city's municipal utility but was thwarted by city councilmen whose wards took advantage of the cheaper product.
After his election, Stokes said, "I can find no more fitting way to end this appeal, by saying to all of you, in a more serious and in the most meaningful way that I can, that truly never before have I ever known to the extent that I know tonight, the full meaning of the words, ‘God Bless America', thanks a lot."[2]
As mayor, Stokes opened city hall jobs to blacks and women.He was known as a strong administrator, and is remembered for his vision and motivation. Stokes feuded with City Council and the Police Department for most of his tenure. He also initiated Cleveland: Now!, a public and private funding program aimed at the revitalization of Cleveland neighborhoods. Stokes pulled through and was reelected in 1969.
After his mayoral administration, Stokes lectured to colleges around the country. In 1972, he became the first black anchorman in New York City when he took a job with television station WNBC-TV. While at WNBC New York, Stokes won a New York State Regional Emmy for excellence in craft, for a piece about the opening of the Paul Robeson play, starring James Earl Jones on Broadway. After accusing NBC of failing to promote him to a national brief, he returned to Cleveland in 1980 and began serving as general legal counsel for the United Auto Workers.
From 1983 to 1994, he served as municipal judge in Cleveland where he developed a reputation as a fair judge with a common sense approach to the law. President Bill Clinton then appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles. He was awarded 12 honorary degrees, numerous civic awards, and represented the United States on numerous goodwill trips abroad by request of the White House. In 1970, the National League of Cities voted him its first black president-elect.
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