Douglas Palmer served as Trenton, New Jersey's first African-American mayor from 1990 to 2010. From 2006 to 2008, he was president of the United States Conference of Mayors.
He was born in Trenton and attended Trenton public schools. He then graduated from the Bordentown Military Institute in Bordentown, New Jersey.
Douglas Palmer is a graduate of Virginia's private black college Hampton University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management in 1973.
Each and every one of you have barriers and obstacles in what you want to do, even where you chose to go to school here or what you're going to do when you leave here. No matter what you're in, basically you've got to be true to yourself. You can't lie to yourself. You can but you can't. You've ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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