My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

Henry was the first African-American mayor of any U. S. His victory two years later drew national attention as he was the first African-American mayor of one of the ten biggest cities in the United States.

S. city (Springfield elected 1966). Elected on November 7 1967 but taking office on January 1 1968 he was the first African-American mayor of a major U.