CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland officials have declared June 30 to be Carl B. Stokes Day, celebrating the life and legacy of the ...

The first steps towards the historic moment when Carl Stokes was elected America's first big-city black mayor were probably taken years earlier, in the waning days of the Jim Crow era, in ...

Cleveland has established June 30th as Carl B. Stokes Day to honor the city's first Black mayor and his contributions to ...

The city of Cleveland announced June 30 will officially be Carl B. Stokes Day going forward.Clevelanders elected Stokes as their mayor in 1967. With the election, Stoke became the first Black mayor of ...

Carl B. Stokes, with his wife, Shirley, makes a victory statement at his campaign headquarters in Cleveland, Oct. 3, 1967, after returns indicated he had won the Democratic nomination for mayor of ...

Today, outside of the building in which Mayor Carl B. Stokes once lead the city, a historical marker was unveiled outside Cleveland City Hall.

Cleveland inaugurates Carl B. Stokes Day to honor the legacy of its first Black mayor and civil rights leader.

Carl Stokes won the mayor’s job in a city which was 68% white. Because of his victory, thousands of other blacks across the nation began to become more politically active as candidates themselves.

Entering the Cleveland mayoral race in 1965 as an independent, Stokes narrowly lost to incumbent Democratic mayor LOCHER, RALPH, but he defeated Locher in the Democratic primary and won in the general ...