| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power. By Leonard N. Moore. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. x, 242 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02760-4.)
When the voters of Cleveland, Ohio, narrowly elected Carl B. Stokes mayor in 1967, a new chapter in American political history was begun. Within two years of Stokes's departure from office, voters in Los Angeles had elected Tom Bradley, voters in Detroit had elected Coleman Young, and voters of Atlanta had elected Maynard Jackson.	1
Within a generation, the election of black mayors in major cities had become so commonplace that the civil rights leader (and former presidential candidate) Jesse Jackson took some umbrage when, after his son, Jesse Jr., had been elected to Congress, pundits speculated that the ultimate destination would, of course, be the mayoralty of Chicago rather than a seat in the United States Senate, the governor's mansion, or even the White House. Back in 1967, when Stokes first ran, success in local politics seemed the first step on a longer journey to political success in a multiracial electorate. The mayoralty seems to have become another glass ceiling for African Americans in politics, as the former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk's failed bid for the U.S. Senate in 2002 was but the most recent reminder.	. . .

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