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.
Over half of my tenure in Trenton, we had terrible police community relations. In 1998, there was a young girl by the name of Jenny Hightower. She was in a stolen car with another man named Herbert Moore. Police officers stopped them in a parking lot, but Herbert Moore decided that he was going t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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