Title:

[Yvonne Brathwaite Burke photos]

Creator/Contributor:

Crowder, Guy R., photographer.

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

Date:

1967 (issued)

Subject:

Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite -- Photographs

Title devised by cataloger.

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

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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke photos, BANC PIC 2020.084, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Purchase ; from Langdon Manor Books LLC ; 2020.

Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite; Perle Yvonne Watson; lawyer, political figure, U.S. Representative; born 5 October 1932 in South Central, Los Angeles, California, United States; attended Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles; bachelor's degree in political science, University of California, Los Angeles (1953); earned juris doctor 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

photoprint

6 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; dimensions (8 x 10 format)

English

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BANC PIC 2020.084

Origin:

California

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