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Kenneth Gibson
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NJ Flags Fly At Half-Staff To Honor Pioneering Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson
The state and U.S. flags were lowered over the Statehouse in Trenton Monday to honor Kenneth Gibson, who became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city when he was elected in Newark in 1970. Gibson died Friday. He was 86. Gibson came to power at a time when New Jersey's largest city was still recovering from a devastating riot three years earlier, part of a wave of racial violence sweeping the nation touched off partly by assassinations of prominent civll rights leaders, including Martin Luther King. Born in Alabama, Gibson attended Central High School and…