Goode, W. Wilson (Personal Name)

Featherman, S. Philadelphia elects a black mayor, 1984: p. 1 (Mayor W. Wilson Goode, Philadelphia)

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African American National Biography, accessed January 31, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Goode, Woodrow Wilson; mayor; born 19 August 1938 in Seaboard, Northampton County, North Carolina, United States; BA in political science from Morgan State University (1961); master's in governmental administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business (1968); probation officer in the West Division of the Juvenile Section of the Probation Department in Philadelphia (1963); president and executive officer of the Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement (PCCA); head of the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, becoming the first African American managing director of Philadelphia (1979); Philadelphia's 126th mayor, first African American to hold that office (1984-1992) ; published autobiography, In Goode Faith (1992); deputy assistant secretary for regional and community services for the federal Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs (1997); honors include, fourteen honorary degrees, and many other honors and awards)