Carl B. Stokes and the rise of Black political power
By: Leonard N. Moore.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Stokes, Carl; African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography; Mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography; African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations; Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "As the first elected black mayor of a major U.S. city, Cleveland's Carl B. Stokes embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement from a vehicle of protest to one of black political power.".

"In this political biography, Leonard N. Moore examines the convictions and alliances that brought Stokes to power.

Impelled by the problems plaguing Cleveland's ghettos in the decades following World War II, Stokes and other Clevelanders questioned how the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights movement could correct the pervasive employment discrimination, police brutality, substandard housing, and de facto school segregation that African Americans in the country's northern urban centers viewed as evidence of their oppression."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cleveland boy; title: The making of a mayor; title: Cleveland: now!; title: Glenville; title: Lee-Seville; title: Police reform and Black capitalism; title: Re-election; title: The general; title: Council wars; title: The Twenty-First District Caucus.