Description
2016-2593.Bust-length portrait.Born in 1932 in Los Angeles, Calif. One of the first African American women admitted to University of Southern California School of Law, worked in her own practice. Served in the California State Assembly from 1967-1973; in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973-1979; and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1979-2008.Yvonne Watson Brathwaite;
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Unmediated Sheet Portraits.Photographs.Nonprojected Graphic
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California Digital LibraryKeywords
- African American Lawyers
- African American Legislators
- African American Women
- African Americans
- Biography
- Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite
- California
- California Legislative Black Caucus
- California. Legislature. Assembly
- Legislators
- Los Angeles
- Los Angeles County (Calif.). Board Of Supervisors
- Photographic Prints
- Photographs
- Portrait Photographs
- Portraits
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- United States
- United States. Congress. House
- Women
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