The Nation - News from Jan. 27, 1987
Clarence H. (Du) Burns, who left his job as a locker room attendant 15 years ago to serve on the Baltimore City Council, was sworn in as the city’s first black mayor. Burns, a Democrat who has been council president for the past four years, automatically became mayor when William Donald Schaefer left the post to become governor. Burns, 68, who is filling out the remaining 11 months of Schaefer’s term, planned a fund-raiser to begin his campaign for the fall mayoral election.
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