BY WALTER OPINDE Kenneth Allen Gibson was elected the first African-American mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a major eastern city in the United States. Gibson is an American Democratic Party politician, who was elected in 1970 as the 34th Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the largest city in the state. He was the first African American elected mayor of any […]
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