Twenty-six years have passed since Coleman A. Young ran for re-election for Detroit mayor. He was first elected in 1973 and ended up serving 20 years.
He was a dominant figure in Detroit politics and a divisive one at times. Until this day, people debate how effective a mayor he was during his long reign, which ended in January 1994.
He died Nov. 29, 1997 at the age of 79.
In September 1989, an Associated Press story in The New York Times, read:
Mayor Coleman A. Young, one of the first blacks to lead a major American city, won a big victory Tuesday over a dozen challengers, with Representative John Conyers Jr. coming in third in the city's nonpartisan primary.
Mr. Young will face Tom Barrow, an accountant who is a nephew of the prizefighter Joe Louis, in a runoff election in November.
In November, the Times wrote a story that said:
In Detroit, Mayor Coleman A. Young, a political veteran, once seemed vulnerable because of revelations about his personal life and his decision not to support the Rev. Jesse Jackson's 1988 Presidential bid. But the 71-year-old Mr. Young coasted to an unprecedented fifth term on Tuesday.
We stumbled upon a couple of his campaign commercials worth watching.
