On This Day In Black History Dec 9 - Kurt Lidell Schmoke

1987 – On this day, Kurt Lidell Schmoke was inaugurated as the first Black mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. 1936 – NAACP filed first suit in campaign to equalize the salaries of Black and white teachers. 1925 – Entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr was born December 9 1995 – Kweisi Mfume is unanimously elected President and CEO of the NAACP.

Kurt Lidell Schmoke (born December 1, 1949) is an American politician and lawyer who was the 47th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1987 to 1999, the first African American to be elected to the post. He is a former dean of the Howard University School of Law and, on July 7, 2014, he was appointed as president of the University of Baltimore.

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