Maire actuel de Los-Angeles:Antonio Villaraigosa.(hispanic)
Tom Bradley : Premier maire noir de Los Angeles en 1973...
Bradley, Tom (Thomas Bradley), 1917-98, African-American politician, b. Calvert, Tex. A sharecropper’s son who became (1940) a Los Angeles police officer, he earned (1956) a law degree from Southwestern Law School and entered (1961) private practice. A Los Angeles city councilman (1963-73), he was elected the city’s first black mayor in 1973. A liberal Democrat, he was reelected four times and served until 1993, during a period of Los Angeles’s expansion. He ran unsuccessfully for governor of California in 1982 and 1986.
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je crois que c’est révélateur du fait de société.
Tout ceux-là ne peuvent être des « cas isolés » et je ne cite que les personnes de couleurs noires.J’oublie les autres minorités tellement la liste est non-exaustive !
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# Tom Bradley, American politician
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# Edward Brooke, American politician
# Ralph Bunche, U.S. government official and United Nations diplomat
# Julia Carson, American politician
# Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, American politician
# John Conyers, politician
# Paul Cuffe, U.S. merchant, seaman, and philanthropist
# Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American air force general
# Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., American general
# David Dinkins, political leader
# Joycelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General
# William H. Hastie, U.S. jurist
# Richard Gordon Hatcher, politician, law professor
# A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., prominent black federal judge and historian
# Benjamin Hooks, American black leader
# Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, Union general in the Civil War
# Jesse Jackson, political leader, clergyman, and civil-rights activist
# Maynard Jackson, mayor of Atlanta
# Daniel « Chappie » James, first black U.S. Air Force general
# Barbara Jordan, lawyer, public official, and educator
# John Mercer Langston, public official, diplomat, educator
# Greenbury Logan, Texan soldier
# Thurgood Marshall, U.S. lawyer and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
# Floyd McKissick, U.S. lawyer and civil-rights leader
# Kweisi Mfume, politician, NAACP leader
# Eleanor Holmes Norton, lawyer and government official
# Barack Obama, U.S. politician
# P. B. S. Pinchback, U.S. politician
# Colin Powell, U.S. army general and public official
# Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American politician and clergyman
# Joseph Rainey, U.S. politician
# A. Philip Randolph, U.S. labor leader
# Charles Rangel, U.S. politician
# Hiram R. Revels, U.S. clergyman, educator, and politician
# Condoleezza Rice, diplomat, professor
# Myra C. Selby, attorney, Indiana jurist
# Robert Smalls, U.S. captain in the Union navy and politician
# Carl B. Stokes, American political leader
# Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S.. Supreme Court
# Harold Washington, American politician
# J. C. Watts, politician
# Robert C. Weaver, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
# Andrew Young, African American leader, clergyman, and public official
