Clarence Everett Lightner was the first popularly elected Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, and the first African American elected mayor of a metropolitan Southern city. Lightner was born on Aug. 15, 1921, in Raleigh, Lightner was the son of Calvin and Mamie Lightner, owners of a local funeral home. Lightner planned to someday work in […]

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