Applause is an Emmy award-winning locally produced TV show that celebrates artists and cultural groups around Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Each week this on-air arts magazine broadcasts a fresh half-hour of features, performances, on-location reports, and interviews from the studios of WVIZ/PBS ideastream. Special thanks to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College for the use of their Steinway Piano on Around Noon/Applause.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

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Forty years ago, Carl Stokes made history be becoming the 51st mayor of Cleveland. Thanks to the magic of television, we're able to step back in time a few days before his win over the republican candidate Seth Taft by a narrow margin of some 2,500 votes. It was a victory that would forever change the political landscape of the country. Our coverage of the Stokes’ legacy continues with this report from ideastream producer David C. Barnett.

It’s an understatement that the November 7th, 1967 election of Carl Stokes as mayor of the city of Cleveland was no easy task. Two years earlier Stokes had lost a hard fought battle to then Mayor Ralph Perk. And heading into the final days of the ’67 election the outcome was unclear. But perhaps one man on the Stokes team saw things a little different... we spoke with long-time friend, confidant, and one of the architects of the Stokes for mayor campaign, Arnold Pinkney.

No look at Carl Stokes would be complete without a look at his brother Louis Stokes. The one-time member of the U.S. House of Representative served 15 consecutive terms in the senate representing Northeast Ohio which includes the federally funding housing project known as Outhwaite Estates that he and Carl grew up in. Recently, the Cuyahoga County Metropolitan Housing Authority which operates Outhwaite paid tribute to Louis Stokes by dedicating a museum in honor of the former senator.

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