Mr. Stokes was the first black mayor of a major American city, and he had inherited an explosive situation-due partly, as he tells us here, to the patterns of migration from the rural South to the large Northern cities; partly to the general discontent in America in the Sixties. CS: "So much of the reason I got the kind of vote I got from the Negro community-close to 96 per cent-... was because of a great investment of hope in me ... Now, however, the great burden upon me is to produce ... If I don't produce and start showing where you can touch the foundation of a new house going up or a new business within the black community that's going to produce jobs right there, then the reaction toward me, at the minimum, would be the same as toward anybody else, any other mayor whatever his color, and maybe-" WFB: "Even worse." CS: "Even worse, because, of course, of the level of hope to which I had raised the community."