[Las Vegas Ron]

Carl B. Stokes is best known for being Cleveland's 51st mayor -- the first African-American mayor of a major United States city. He was also a soldier, a lawyer, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, a broadcaster, a judge, a father, brother to a Congressman, and a US Ambassador.

http://cleveland.about.com/od/famousclevelanders/p/carlstokes.htm

Since you are so fond of sources.

[trumandogz]

Thanks.

I knew there must have been someone before Bradley.

And almost everyone knew there was someone before Harold Washington.