THE CITIES MOST IMPACTED by crack cocaine were sites of unrest and white flight in the 1960s. The population shift in the 1970s and 1980s produced Black leadership and many elected Black mayors. Such was the case with David Dinkins in New York, Sharpe James in Newark, Tom Bradley in Los Angeles, Lionel Wilson in Oakland, Wilson Goode in Philadelphia, Marion Barry in Washington, D.C., Ernest Morial in New Orleans, Andrew Young in Atlanta, and Kurt Schmoke in Baltimore. Schmoke is not as well-known as his Black mayor peers, but his contribution to the era and the history of Baltimore are
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