Carl Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and becomes the first African American elected mayor of a major city. In a twist of irony Stokes, the grandson of a slave defeated Seth Taft,...
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"God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement"
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