In 1967 Carl Stokes defeated Seth Taft to become the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, this one
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Stokes, the great-grandson of a slave, rose from poverty to defeat Seth Taft, the 
grandson of a president, in Cleveland's close 1967 mayoral race.