BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 16th June, 1970, 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 as the 34th Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, the largest city in the state. He was the first African American […]

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