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Richard G. Hatcher
American politician
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history of Gary
- In Gary
…many more, and in 1967 Richard G. Hatcher became one of the first African Americans to be elected mayor of a major U.S. city. Gary was the scene of a significant early-20th-century development in public education when William Wirt established the work-study-play school, popularly known as the platoon school, designed…
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political progress by African Americans
- In African Americans: Political progress
…Stokes in Cleveland, Ohio, and Richard Hatcher in Gary, Indiana, in 1967; Kenneth Gibson in Newark in 1969; Tom Bradley in Los Angeles, Coleman A. Young in Detroit, and Maynard Jackson in Atlanta in 1973; Ernest N. Morial in New Orleans in 1977; Richard Arrington in Birmingham in 1979;
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