21.   His election came as a growing list of black mayors in Northern cities were elected by black voters long frustrated with white-dominated administrations.

22.   In fact, as the journalists soon discovered, Jasper has a black mayor and a black school principal.

23.   In many cities, such as Washington and Detroit, the second wave of black mayors came not from the civil rights movement but from business and other backgrounds.

24.   Let us consider the image of a distinguished black mayor covered with goo.

25.   Maynard Jackson was the first black mayor of a big Southern city.

26.   Memphis is now an African-American majority city with its first black mayor.

27.   Much as he yearned for a black mayor, Smith said, he would have opposed Brown if he had not supported affirmative action.

28.   Not even the presence of a black mayor and black police commissioner changed the pattern.

29.   Not so much because he became the first black mayor of a major Texas city, though he acknowledges that milestone.

30.   Now Stone Mountain has elected a black mayor.