Virginia Monteiro, first vice president of the Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP and its Greater Hartford branch, is Milner’s stepdaughter. She remembers the man she called “Pops” as a ...

Former Hartford Mayor Thirman L. Milner will lie in state at City Hall on Thursday, the first former leader of the city to receive such an honor. Milner, who died in November at the age of 91, became ...

Funeral services for former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner, who died Nov. 29 at age 91, will be held Firday. Milner will also ...

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He grudgingly transitioned from civil rights to politics and became the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England.

Milner will lie in state at Hartford City Hall, on Thursday. The schedule for services on Friday, December 13, starts at 10 a ...

The Connecticut NAACP says that former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner has died. He was 91. Milner was the first popularly ...

Funeral services for Thirman Milner, the first Black mayor of Hartford, will be held Friday, Dec. 13, the Greater Hartford NAACP announced Wednesday. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon at the ...

The first Black mayor of New England, Thirman L. Milner, has died at age 91, according to the Connecticut NAACP. The ...

Former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner, known for becoming the first Black mayor in all of New England, has died at the age of ...

Thirman Milner, the first popularly elected Black mayor of a New England city, has died. The Connecticut NAACP said in a ...

Gov. Ned Lamont called the former Hartford mayor, who served in the role from 1981 to 1987, "a civil rights icon." ...