Don L. Crawford
Template:Short description Don L. Crawford was an American politician of the Democratic party, who was the first African-American person to serve as a city commissioner of Dayton, Ohio.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He served on the commission from 1962<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> to 1967.<ref name="Williamson1975">Template:Cite book</ref> While presenting a key to the city to Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, Crawford remarked that the key would not actually open many parts of the city to him, angering the other city commissioners.<ref name=blackmayors>Template:Cite book</ref>
Wright State University, which holds his papers, called him, "one of Dayton's best-known African American leaders of the 1960s-1980s."<ref name="WSU papers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A park and Don Crawford Plaza are named after him.<ref name="UKY NKAA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>