Identifier	cleAA1438
Title	Stokes, Carl B.: 1971
Name	Stokes, Carl B. (1927-1996)
Additional Names	Jackson, Jesse
Profession	Law Journalism Government
Subject	African Americans Lawyers Prosecutors Mayors Municipal government Ambassadors Ohio House of Representatives Republic of the Seychelles Television journalists
Description	"Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes and Rev. Jesse Jackson, national head of Operation Breadbasket, chat together before Mayor Stokes delivered an address in connection with Black Expo in Chicago 9/30. Mayor Stokes called for a "black political strategy for 1972" which "may mean the actual running of a black person for president." Black Expo is a commerical exposition at Chicago's International Amphitheatre, which is sponsored by Operation Breadbasket."--photo front.
Accomplishments	Lawyer Prosecutor, City of Cleveland Judge, Cleveland Municipal Court Member, Ohio House of Representatives Mayor, City of Cleveland First Black Mayor of major U.S. City Television journalist, WNBC-NY U. S. Ambassador, Republic of the Seychelles.
Location Depicted	Chicago
Time Period	Decline and Comeback: 1960-1990
Date Original	1971
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Size of Original	9x7 in.
Digital Collection	Notable Blacks of Cleveland
Collection Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/notableblacks/
Donor	Joseph E. Cole
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	Jpeg
Digital Processing Notes	TIF File Size: 237k - DPI: 300
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press<br>Notable Blacks of Cleveland
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=SCB2
Further Reading	http://scholar.csuohio.edu/search/d?Stokes%2Ccarl+b

Stokes, Carl B.: 1971

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