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Mono Lisa. It is a certainty of American demography that just as Gibson is not the first black mayor of a large city, he will not be the last. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes became mayor with the help of 19% of the white vote; in Gary, Ind., Richard Hatcher won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: The Visible Man | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

Another speaker got up and said. "The workers of this country are gonna fight against the likes of Stokes . . . The people are tired, they are damned tired of these liberal sellouts." He received a standing ovation after that and then added, "Liberals and conservatives are two sides of the same...

Author: By Story STEVEN W. bussard, | Title: The Cleveland Conference: What Did It All Mean? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

cussion of whether there should be a demonstration against the Vice-President at the Sheraton-Cleveland. The SDS-PL group put forward the idea that there should not only be a demonstration against Agnew, but also one against Mayor Carl Stokes. They claimed that Stokes was against the workers, even...

Author: By Story STEVEN W. bussard, | Title: The Cleveland Conference: What Did It All Mean? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

Later, a Veteran for Peace said he wanted to urge people not to attend a demonstration where people might get hurt, namely the planned SDS demonstration against Mayor Stokes. Another person then rose to say he wanted to stay in the auditorium and discuss the future of the antiwar movement...

Author: By Story STEVEN W. bussard, | Title: The Cleveland Conference: What Did It All Mean? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

The motion to demonstrate against Agnew or Agnew-and-Stokes was then put to a vote, and the moderate proposal won. This part of the meeting had been chaired by Dan Gurewitz, national coordinator of SMC.

Author: By Story STEVEN W. bussard, | Title: The Cleveland Conference: What Did It All Mean? | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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