URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6034
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  Governing the Cities
Item Title Governing the Cities
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Stokes, Carl
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created May 24, 1968
Description 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."
Subject(s) Cleveland (Ohio) Urban policy Ohio African Americans Stokes, Carl United States Politics and government
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Text
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 100
Record Number 80040.100
Notes Video available through special order.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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