National Conference of Black Mayors

The thirteen mayors who founded the group were elected after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting 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 of Cleveland, Ohio; Kenneth Gibson of Newark, New Jersey; and Richard G. Hatcher, of Gary, Indiana.

[1] In 1973, Atlanta, Georgia, elected Maynard Jackson the first black mayor of a major southern U.S.

[2] In April 1990, Unita Blackwell was elected the first woman president of the association.

[5][6] By the end of 2016, the bankruptcy cases were decided and the AAMA purchased the NCBM's assets and naming rights.