Cleveland changed forever 60 years ago this summer. The change agent arrived dressed as defeat, yet behind that losing look was an inevitability that politics here would never be the same. In 1965, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - 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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland officials have declared June 30 to be Carl B. Stokes Day, celebrating the life and legacy of the man who, in 1967, became the first Black mayor of a major American city.

Cleveland’s mayoralty race had every prospect of being a model campaign. Democrat Carl B. Stokes, a Negro and son of a laundry worker, and Republican Seth Taft, scion of a distinguished political ...

Cleveland, whose population is only 35% Negro, in 1965 came within a hairsbreadth of becoming the first major U.S. city to elect a Negro mayor. It may still be the first. Currently, the leading ...

A sculpture by Jim Dine, entitled Cleveland Venus, is located atop the rotunda entrance on the exterior of the building. "December 2003"--P. [2] of cover.