Stokes’ Dilemma is an intimate portrait of Carl Stokes — a brilliant, ambitious son of Cleveland who rose from poverty to shatter America’s political color line as the nation’s first Black mayor of a major city, only to see his hard-won progress pushed to the brink.
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