Maryland City Elects 1st Black & Woman Mayor

Posted by misspolitician

July 10, 2008

victoria jackson-stanley

Talk about a double whammy.

Cambridge, Maryland elected its first black mayor this week who also happens to be their first woman mayor.

Victoria Jackson-Stanley is a 54-year-old social worker who kicked an eight-year incumbent to the curb. She said: “I didn’t set out to make history, but here it is.”

Though Cambridge is home to only 11,000 residents, it has the honor of being the birthplace of Undergroud Railroad hero Harriet Tubman.

Jackson-Stanley recalls growing up in a far different Cambridge, where blacks lived in a section called Ward Two and attended segregated schools. Jackson-Stanley was among the first black students to attend the county’s previously all-white high school. She says:

“It’s a very beautiful, diverse, multicultural place now. It wasn’t always like this.”

One local Carolyn E. Jones says: “What’s that commercial? ‘You’ve come a long way, baby?’ Oh, that’s us.”

Yes it it. CONGRATULATIONS CAMBRIDGE!