Title:

[Yvonne Brathwaite Burke photographs]

Creator/Contributor:

Crowder, Guy R., photographer.

Publicity photographs pertaining to the early Los Angeles political career of Yvonne Burke.

Date:

1967 (issued)

Subject:

African American legislators -- Photographs

Women politicians -- Photographs

Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite -- Photographs

Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite

Title devised by cataloger.

Photographer's name present on one print: Guy Crowder. Other photographers unidentified.

Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite; lawyer, political figure, U.S. Representative; born Pearl Yvonne Watson, October 5, 1932 in South Central Los Angeles; attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles; B.A. in political science, University of California, Los Angeles (1953); earned J.D. from University of Southern California, School of Law (1956); worked as a fashion model, appeared in Ebony, Tan, and Our World; practiced real estate law (1960s); served as a hearing officer on Los Angeles Police Commission (1965); hired as a staff attorney for McCone Commission; elected to California State Assembly to represent the 63rd Assembly District (1967); vice chair of the Democratic National Convention (1972), the first African American woman member of congress from California (1972-1978); returned to private legal practice (1979); named chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (1993); chair of Los Angeles Federal Reserve Bank; vice chair of the 1984 United States Olympics Organizing Committee.

Type:

graphic

Photographs.

photoprint

6 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 26 x 21 cm (8 x 10 format)

English

Origin:

California