Stokes' Dilemma takes viewers into the origins of America's Black political awakening, where Carl Stokes' groundbreaking rise as the first Black mayor of a major U.S. city in Cleveland collides with the era's most powerful forces: the rise of Black Nationalism, relentless FBI surveillance, and the enduring influence of Martin Luther King Jr.
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