found: NUCMC data from Western Reserve Hist. Soc. for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. Records, 1924-1967(Louis Stokes)
found: Bio. dir. U.S. Congress, 1774-1989(Stokes, Louis, Representative from Ohio; b. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 23, 1925; lawyer; resident of Warrensville Heights, Ohio)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 20, 2015(in obituary published Aug. 19: Louis Stokes; b. Feb. 23, 1925, Cleveland; d. Tuesday [Aug. 18, 2015], at his home in a Cleveland suburb, aged 90; as the first African-American congressman from Ohio, helped focus federal attention on the nation's poor and led a special House investigation into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Democrat; served in the House for 30 years starting in 1969, representing Ohio's 21st Congressional District)
