African American Mayor Research Paper

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Currently, the idea of an African American mayor is not an extraordinary thing to behold or a cause for african american people to be overly excited about . There have been many mayors of african decent to hold this title .But during the exhausting and long struggle of the civil rights movement the first wave of African Americans began to be elected to to the very important position of mayor in large populated American cities . The first African American to be elected mayor was Carl Stokes on November 7, 1967, he was voted the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio he served from 1967 to 1971. In the state of Alabama the first black mayor was Richard Arrington Jr. Arrington held office for 20 years starting in1979 and ending in 1999. he