The day Steven Louis Reed became Montgomery, Alabama’s first Black mayor, the country, the city, the civil rights leaders who recognized the auspicious occasion for what it was, celebrated with joy.
“The education and the environment that Morehouse produces is unique unto itself,” Reed tells ESSENCE during a sit-down at Montgomery’s City Hall.
(Photo: Steven L. Reed Facebook)
Roughly 65 years before Reed’s historic election, another Morehouse grad moved to the city he would eventually lead.
Morehouse College alum sing the school hymn on the day of Steven Reed’s inauguration.
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