Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. was first elected as mayor on October 16, 1973. Mr. Jackson handily won the runoff with 59 percent of the vote, becoming the first black mayor of a major city in the South, the same year that Tom Bradley and Coleman Young won the mayoralties of Los Angeles and Detroit respectively.
Atlanta City Councilmembers Michael Julian Bond, C.T. Martin and Mayor Kasim Reed honored the 40th Anniversary of the election of Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. as the city’s first African-American mayor on Monday, October 7 at Atlanta City Hall, 55 Trinity Avenue, S.W.
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