Extreme Trivia #87
November 16, 2007 at 11:39 am
First, our last trivia answer: The first African American to govern a major U.S. city.
And the correct question: Who was Washington, DC’s first elected mayor, Walter E. Washington.
Washington’s election in 1974 made him the first elected mayor of the nation’s capital since the Civil War and the first black to head a major U.S. city, opening the door to contemporaries like Detroit’s Coleman Young, Tom Bradley of Los Angeles and Chicago’s Harold Washington. He died in 2003 at age 88.
Now, the next Extreme Trivia answer, and it comes to us from America’s foremost brilliant professor and loyal Extreme Mortman reader Lee Annis of Montgomery College. The answer: “A troubled man for troubled times.”
What’s the question?
D T Nelson said,
November 16, 2007 @ 3:01 pm
I suggested that perhaps you did not consider Gary, Indiana a “major city,” but surely you consider Cleveland a major city. Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland on November 7, 1967, on the same day Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Gary. I know this; I was there. (Gary, not Cleveland.) And it was in all the papers — you could look it up.
Ralph Perk said,
November 16, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
Sorry to have to make this known, but Carl Stokes was the first African-American
to serve as a mayor of a major American city. Stokes was elected as Cleveland’s
mayor in 1966, and served from January 1967 until January 1971.
Source: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9399737/Carl-Stokes
Phineas J. Whoopee said,
November 19, 2007 @ 9:51 am
The campaign slogan for almost-candidate and rock legend Alice Cooper back int eh 1970s — and later the name fo his 2007 national tour.
– I got Tojo’s shoe trees onE-Bay. Ask me how.