In 1983, Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.
Mr. Koch lost a 1989 bid for the Democratic mayoral nomination to Mr. Dinkins, the city's first black mayor.
And Maynard Jackson became the first black mayor, and I felt a whole change in the tone of the city.
In 1989, he lost a bid for a fourth term to David Dinkins, who became the city's first black mayor.
If he wins the run-off, he will become Houston's first black mayor.
Mr Giuliani, a Republican, reversed the policing policies of a man who was not just a Democrat, but the city's first black mayor.
New York City also elected its first black mayor, David Dinkins.
Koch lost the 1989 Democratic primary election to Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who would go on to win election as New York's first black mayor.
The runoff will be a race between the man who became the city's first black mayor, and a man vying to become its first Latino mayor.
Mr Bosley captured an almost equal percentage of black voters, but higher turnouts in white districts doomed the first black mayor of St Louis to a three-to-two defeat.
Kirk, 54, now a partner in the Dallas office of the Houston-based law firm Vinson and Elkins, was the first black mayor of Dallas, serving from 1995 to 2002.
Since the election of Mr Jackson, the city's first black mayor, in 1973, power in Atlanta has been largely a matter of backroom deals between black politicians and white businessmen.
Simmons, Cambridge's first black female mayor, confirmed to CNN that she apologized to Gates.
CNN: Cambridge top cop stands by department after Harvard arrest
Simmons, Cambridge's first black female mayor, confirmed that she apologized to Gates.
In 1969, Evers' brother Charles was the first black man elected mayor in Mississippi.
The only politician he discusses at any length in his first book is the black man who was mayor of Chicago when Obama first moved there, in 1985, Harold Washington.
Among them is Douglas Wilder, Virginia's first black governor and now the mayor of Richmond.
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