When the great-grandson of an enslaved man beat the grandson of a president

Carl B. Stokes defeated Seth Taft in Cleveland's 1967 mayoral election to become the first Black person elected mayor of a major U.S. city. Taft was a member of the Ohio political family that included President William Howard Taft. Stokes served as Cleveland's mayor from 1967 to 1971.

• Washington Post — When the great-grandson of an enslaved man beat the grandson of a president

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