Talk:List of first African-American mayors

First African-American mayors

Hi. In 1976, there was a African American mayor of Las Cruces, New Mexico who served from 1976 - 1980. His name was Albert Johnson. This info is missing from your list of African American mayors. Is it possible to get it added? Thanks.

I don't recall seeing anything about any African-American mayors elected during Reconstruction, which probably reflected the rural nature of the south (few cities), and most of the African American population in the South was then in rural areas. Don't know much about municipal gov'ts then.--Parkwells (talk) 20:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Great to see the many additions on this list!--Parkwells (talk) 03:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I believe that Birmingham, Alabama elected an African-American mayor in the 1970's. He was re-elected a few times as well. Does anyone have info. on him? Mtminchi08 (talk) 05:33, 1 July 2008 (UTC)Mtminchi08

After more than a year(!), I finally did the research myself and added Richard Arrington, Jr. as the first African-American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama. He served for twenty years (1979-1999). Also, while Marvin Pratt served as the mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2004, he was not elected to the office. He served as Acting Mayor after the previous mayor resigned. Pratt was defeated when he sought election himself. Finally, I deleted the duplicate "1993" line. Mtminchi08 (talk)

Just want to compliment my fellow editors on what's turning out to be very impressive article-list. -- Tenebrae (talk) 20:51, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Hyphenated compound modifiers

As in standard US grammar, and as well-established at List of African-American firsts and talk-page discussions there, "African American" is not hyphenated when used as a noun, but it is hyphenated when used as a compound modifier, like every other compound modifier. Hence, "an African American who was elected mayor" and "an African-American mayor." See MOS:HYPHEN 3.

Youngest African-American mayors/elected officials

Anyone have insight into the ages of African-American elected officials? The youngest elected mayor or to other notable offices? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.253.14.48 (talk) 16:36, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Please discuss on talk pages before making major changes such as moving a page. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:02, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes

This claim has been removed:

First African American elected mayor of a large U.S. city: Richard G. Hatcher (Gary, Indiana) (Hatcher was elected before Stokes but did not take office until after him)

Hatcher was not "elected before Stokes". Ebony (November 1992) states here that "Both were elected on November 7, 1967". Mtminchi08 (talk) 02:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

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Error

Tom Yarborough is listed as the first AA mayor of a California city but there is an African-American mayor of Richmond CA listed two years before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.168.189.62 (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Link added above; corrected. Djflem (talk) 13:50, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Statistics (number of mayors per decade)

• "Black Mayors". EBONY. Johnson Publishing Company. November 26, 1975.</ref>
• "Black Mayors A Growing Political Force". EBONY. Johnson Publishing Company. March 26, 1982.</ref>
• Jaynes, Gerald D. (February 1, 2005). "Encyclopedia of African American Society". SAGE Publications – via Google Books. Djflem (talk) 09:07, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
• Black Mayors, White Majorities, Ravi K. Perry, 2014

Unincorporated communities with mayors

• African Americans in Oklahoma
• List of freedmen's towns

Djflem (talk) 14:40, 17 August 2022 (UTC)