Pall bearers carry the casket holding the body of former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner to a waiting hearse after funeral services at Metropolitan A.M.E. Zion Church, Hartford, Dec. 13, 2024.

Hundreds turned out to the Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Hartford on Friday morning to say farewell to Thirman Milner, the city’s first Black mayor and a widely respected pioneer in the civil ...

Hundreds turned out to the Metropolitan AME Zion Church in Hartford on Friday morning to say farewell to Thirman Milner, the city’s first Black mayor and a widely respected pioneer in the civil rights ...

“Meeting Thirman Milner, they came and they talked to me and they said, ‘As a young person, do not give up, do not quit. You need to fight for the people who you grew up with,’” said Green.

Former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner dies at 91 “This game of politics is not easy, especially if you put your whole life into it,” Councilman Thomas J. Clark II said. “It is hard work.

HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner lied in state at City Hall on Thursday. Milner is remembered as the first Black mayor in all of New England. He served from 1981 to 1987.

Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner lies in state at Hartford City Hall US strikes on Iran ‘less devastating than expected’, intercepted calls reveal Michelle Obama Emotionally Shares Impact ...

The first Black mayor of New England, Thirman L. Milner, who died at age 91, is lying in state Thursday at the Hartford City Hall.

Monique Milner, the niece of Thirman Milner comforts the former mayor’s close friend Annette Shack as they visit his casket while he lies in state at Hartford City Hall on December 12, 2024.

Thirman Milner, who in 1981 became the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England, in Hartford, Conn., and went on to serve three terms, died on Nov. 29 at his home there.

Thirman L. Milner, whose election as Hartford’s mayor in 1981 made him the first popularly elected Black mayor of a New England city, an accomplishment tempered by a city charter that gave him ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England, has died, the Connecticut NAACP said on Friday. He was 91.