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Article: Tom Bradley; Los Angeles' Pioneer Coalition-Builder
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
- Article date:
- February 9, 2005
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Los Angeles Sentinel
02-09-2005
With Los Angeles Mayor's primary election fast approaching memories of Tom
Bradley, the first African American elected mayor to serve the nation's
second largest city come to mind. This quiet-spoken son of a Texas
sharecropper brought this culturally diverse city together. The majority of
the current field of mayoral candidates worked with the Bradley in one
capacity or the other during his 30- plus years in city politics. They have
made tributes to the legacy and credited the influence of Tom Bradley.
Tom Bradley (1917-1998), the five-term mayor of Los Angeles, and its first
African-American mayor, was born to Lee and Crenner Bradley, sharecroppers
who lived in a ...
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