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Perk, a conservative, was backed primarily by Cleveland's white population, about 60 per cent of the city's votes. In 1971, after black mayor Carl Stokes left Cleveland for New York, Perk defeated James M. Carney.
When you are the first Republican mayor of your city in three decades, and, what is more, Democrats there outnumber Republicans 8 to 1, it behooves you to run, at the very least, a shrewd re-election campaign. Cleveland Mayor Ralph J. Perk has been doing just that, and last...
MAURIE is an unprecedented film -the first full-scale weeper for men. It is the slightly fictionalized history of the relationship between Maurice Stokes, a black basketball player who was named rookie of the year after his first season with the Cincinnati Royals, then was mysteriously paralyzed, and Jack Twyman...
Separated. Carl B. Stokes, 45, first black mayor of Cleveland (1967-71), who now deals with the urban crisis from his post as nightly news commentator on a New York City television station; and Shirley Joann Edwards Stokes, 36; after 15 years of marriage, three children.
Whites in urban areas have looked to the conservative wing of the Democratic party and to the Republican party for a home. In Philadelphia they got support from tough talking former Police Chief Frank Rizzo. In Cleveland, the alternative to the primarily black Stokes machine proved to be conservative Republican...