She also advised Carl Stokes on his successful campaign to be elected as Mayor of Cleveland in 1967.

Carl Stokes is an American politician who represents the 12th district on the Baltimore City Council.

Born in the poor black neighborhood of Central in 1927, Carl Stokes was only 2 when his father, Charles, a laundry worker, died.

He said after his election that white opponents thought the city's overwhelming white majority would give them an easy time, but "Carl Stokes fooled them."

Carl Stokes, 68, American politician, cancer.

June 21 - Carl Stokes, American politician (d. 1996)

He also served in 1967 as honorary campaign chairman for Carl Stokes, the first African-American to be elected mayor of a major American city.

During this time, he met and became friends with another pool-hall devotee, Carl Stokes, who later was elected mayor.

Carl Stokes described Evans as a petty hustler who spouted revolutionary nonsense in order to build a following.

That year, he and Carl Stokes of Cleveland became the first black Mayors of big cities.