♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ applause ] >>> in about 20 minutes from now david dinkins, who is now mayor dinkins, is scheduled out from city hall and take a public oath of office and become new york city's 106th mayor and the city's first african-american mayor. >> i intend to be the mayor of all the people of new york. >> david dinkins being inaugurated on new year's day in 1990 is sort of an auspicious start to the decade and really a culmination of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. people are starting to see tangible benefits of that struggle. >> a grandson of slaves was sworn in today as the nation's first elected black governor. >> did you ever think you'd see the day when a black man would be elected governor of virginia? >> no, indeedy. i was born in the '30s. so you know i didn't think nothing like that would happen. >> after we saw hundreds of black elected officials, the reality set in that we made a step, but we had not gotten all the way to where we wanted. >> in last year's mayoral campaign dinkins ran as the candidate who would heal new york's deep racial divisions. now he finds himself s