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Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite

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Personal name headingBurke, Yvonne Brathwaite
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Variant(s)Brathwaite, Yvonne
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19321005
Place of birthLos Angeles (Calif.)
AffiliationUniversity of California, Los Angeles University of Southern California. School of Law Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department California. Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots California. Legislature. Assembly United States. Congress. House
Profession or occupationLawyers Politicians Legislators
Found inBlack political power [SR] c1969: disc label (Yvonne Brathwaite)
Human rights and martial law in the Philippines, 1977: t.p. (Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Dem.-California) cover (Rep. Yvonne Burke)
OCLC, June 18, 2004 (hdg.: Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite, 1932- ; usage: Yvonne Burke, Yvonne B. Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke)
African American National Biography, accessed January 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (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)