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.
Talking about barriers. I was the first African American mayor of my home town, Trenton, New Jersey in 1990. I wanted to be mayor since I was ten years old. I was blessed to be mayor of my home town and to be blessed that the citizens elected me five times. I've been mayor for twenty years. I'm...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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