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Yvonne Brathwaite-Burke: A Legacy of First in LA Politics By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff Writer Published February 25, 2021 Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (Courtesy Photo) 1st Black Woman Elected To The CA Assembly…. 1st Black Woman Elected To Congress…. 1st Black & Woman Elected Supervisor !!!  Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is well acquainted with being the “first.”  Throughout her extensive public service career, she garnered multiple “firsts” as she spearheaded initiatives for the betterment of minorities, women and all people. African Americans in greater Los Angeles and hundreds of thousands across the U.S. benefitted from Burke’s actions in her positions as the “first.”  They include her being one of the first Black women admitted to the University of California School of Law in the mid-1950s, her election as California’s first African American assemblywoman in 1966, becoming the state’s first Black female Congresswoman in 1973, and elected i

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