31.   Now, Stone Mountain has elected a black mayor who happens to live in the same house where Venable, himself, lived.

32.   Sanders became an active campaigner for the New South Coalition, an election machine created by Richard Arrington, the first black mayor of Birmingham.

33.   Ron Kirk was elected the first black mayor of a mayor Texas city.

34.   She and other black homeowners hung on, clinging to the hope that the election of black mayors would bring more services, lower taxes and more police protection.

35.   So Atlanta will continue its run of black mayors, but be scarred by this investigation.

36.   Sixty of them were arrested but soon released, including Coleman Young, who went on to become the combative first black mayor of Detroit.

37.   That fall, when she became the first black mayor with a black majority on the council, the first thing she did was replace those signs.

38.   The ad helped enrage white conservatives by suggesting Blount would run gubernatorial appointments by Richard Arrington, the first black mayor of Birmingham.

39.   The black mayor accepts the resignation.

40.   The first black mayor in city history retired this summer, saying he had done all he could, had exhausted all ideas.