The Obama before Obama, in 1973 at 35 years old, Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr. became the first black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia (home of the Confederate south) and the most significant black political leader since reconstruction.
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Bill Clinton
Vernon Jordan, Jr.
Honorable Andrew Young
Honorable Kasim Reed
Al Sharpton
Maynard Jackson, III
Samuel D. Pollard
Autumn Bailey
Karl Carter
Donald Jarmond
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