Themes: Mayor Carl Stokes of Cleveland · A Cleveland “Camelot” and Cleveland: Now! · Rebuilding a City · Building a New Power Base · Promoting Success in Cleveland to the Nation and the World · Choosing Not to Run · Assassinations · Mayor Stokes and the Assassinations · Congressman Stokes Investigates the Assassinations · Iran Contra · Carl Stokes after he was Mayor · WRHS-TV Studio One
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< “Louis at Desk” Rev. Weedon Papers, WRHS.

Louis served in Congress for thirty years. He was the first African-American to retire from Congress and served as chair on many of the highest ranking committees.