First black mayor of Baltimore

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Clarence H. Du Burns was born on 13 September 1918, he was a self-made politician who rose through grass-roots involvement in his native East Baltimore to become the city's first African-American mayor. He died on January 12, 2002.

source http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-blackhistory-burns,0,7019554.story#ixzz2ekBsOF45

photo: Ananthu Manoharan 

place: Vadi @ Kollam

Ekushey Padak is the civilian award in

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Ans: Bangladesh

 

 It is one of the highest civilian awards in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Language Movement of 1952 that took place on February 21, 1952.