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| Abbreviation | The NCBM |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1974 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Legal status | Defunct, succeeded by the Conference of Black Mayors and the African American Mayors Association |
Region served | United States |
| Membership | 650+ mayors, 32,000 global political leaders of color |
The National Conference of Black Mayors (NCBM) was incorporated in 1974 and was originally organized as theSouthern Conference of Black Mayors (SCBM). The thirteen mayors who founded the group were elected after the enactment of theCivil Rights Act of 1964 and theVoting Rights Act of 1965 and held its first meeting in Santee, South Carolina.
Three significant black mayors elected after the Civil and Voting Rights acts were:Carl Stokes ofCleveland, Ohio;Kenneth Gibson ofNewark, New Jersey; andRichard G. Hatcher, ofGary, Indiana.[1] In 1973,Atlanta, Georgia, electedMaynard Jackson the first black mayor of a major southern U.S. city.[2] By 2005, nearly every large U.S. city had a black mayor within the previous 30 years.[2]
In April 1990,Unita Blackwell was elected the first woman president of the association. She was the first black woman mayor in Mississippi in 1976 when elected the mayor ofMayersville.[3] In November 2013, 138 black women were U.S. mayors.[4]
In later years, the NCBM suffered from financial difficulties, and filed for bankruptcy in early 2014 after the controversial tenure ofKevin Johnson, then mayor ofSacramento, as NCBM president. Johnson sought to make major changes at NCBM, then left the group along with a number of other mayors to form a new mayor's group, the African American Mayors Association (AAMA).[5][6] By the end of 2016, the bankruptcy cases were decided and the AAMA purchased the NCBM's assets and naming rights.[7]
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