Carl Stokes - 51st Mayor of Cleveland (1968–1971), first African American elected mayor of a major US City, grew up in the CMHA Outhwaite Homes.
It is the first Federal Courthouse in the former Jim Crow South to be named for a black man and he is the fourth to receive this honor within the entire United States, the other three being the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes.
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As a drummer he was initially taught by Carl Stokes of Cancer (band) and later by Mick Kirton (one time stand in drummer for Hawkwind circa 1988 and The Groundhogs 1984-1989 amongst other work); before going on to define his own style.