Black Power: Gary Style The Making of Mayor Richard Gordon Hatcher
1970004326Chicago Illinois: Johnson Pub Co Inc 1970. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MAYOR RICHARD GORDON HATCHER on front endpage -"Best Wishes to Fred E. with much admiration Mayor Richard Gordon Hatcher ". Hatcher became on January 1 1968 the first African-American Mayor of Gary Indiana and the first elected African-American mayor of a U.S. metropolitan city and the first in the state of Indiana. He served as mayor until 1987 and during his tenure he became internationally known as a fervent and prolific civil rights spokesman delivering speeches alongside Martin Luther King Robert F. Kennedy Jesse Jackson and other historic proponents of the civil rights movement. Surprisingly material SIGNED by him is quite SCARCE. The book is Near Fine top edge soiled small bump bottom edge front board. In a Very Good dustjacket two small chips and small closed tear top edge. A unique piece of Indiana and African-American political history !. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. First Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Johnson Pub Co Inc Hardcover books
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