Newsweek+Cover+of+Carl+Stokes

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I. Artifact Name
Newsweek cover of Carl Stokes

II. Image
http://www.clevelandseniors.com/photos/lou-stokes/carl-stokes-newsweek.jpg

III. Event Represented by the Artifact/Significance
America's first black mayor appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Stokes was born in Cleveland June 21,1927. Founded the Congressional Black Caucus. His father was a laundry man, and his mother was a cleaning lady. He enlisted in the army in 1945 at age 18 and serving for 2 years. In 1947 he received his high school diploma. He had a Bachelors of law from the University of Minnesota, and received a law degree from Cleveland Marshall school of law in 1956. He ran for the state senate in 1958 and was elected as Ohio legislator in 1962. After one unsuccessful bid for mayor of Cleveland, he was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. He was elected to a second term in 1969.

Stokes worked as an anchorman for WNBC-TV in New York, won an Emmy for Urban Journal on WNBC-TV, worked as a labor lawyer, a municipal court judge, and served as Ambassador of the Republic of Seychelles before his death in 1996.

IV. Date and Place
Carl Stokes was elected November 1967, took office January 1968, appeared on Newsweek cover April, 1969. Cleveland, OH

V. Multimedia Found on the Internet
media type="custom" key="4068779"

VII. Map
media type="custom" key="4068703"

VIII. Curators
A. Dove, V.L., KWC, CH

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