Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician,diplomat,and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor,Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement,serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics,serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia,United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration,and 55th Mayor of Atlanta. Since leaving office,Young has founded or served in many organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.
The United States District Court for the Central District of California is a federal trial court that serves over 19 million people in Southern and Central California,making it the most populous federal judicial district. The district was created on September 18,1966. Cases from the Central District are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Along with the Central District of Illinois,the court is the only district court referred to by the name "Central" –all other courts with similar geographical names instead use the term "Middle."
John Francis Seymour Jr. is an American retired politician who served as a United States Senator from California from 1991 to 1992. A member of the Republican Party,he was appointed to continue Pete Wilson's term but lost the special election to finish it to Democratic candidate and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. As of 2022,he is the most recent member of the Republican Party to serve as a U.S. Senator from California. Seymour was also the last U.S. Senator from Southern California until Alex Padilla took office on January 20,2021,replacing Kamala Harris when she was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States.
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally was an American politician from California. He served in the California State Assembly (1963–1966) and the California State Senate (1967–1975) as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993). Dymally returned to politics a decade later to serve in the California State Assembly (2003–2008).
Walter Rayford Tucker Jr. was an American dentist and politician who served nine years as the Mayor of Compton,California.
Lionel B. Cade was an American accountant who served as mayor of Compton,California,from 1977 until 1981.
Charles Herbert Wilson was a California Democratic politician from the Los Angeles area. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981.
Ernest King Bramblett was an American Republican politician who represented California's Central Coast in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1955 when he was convicted. He was elected to the U.S. House in the 1946 Republican landslide when he ousted Democratic incumbent Rep. George Outland.
Robert Murphy Mayo was a Virginia lawyer,Confederate officer and politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and briefly in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Readjuster Party.
Omar Bradley is an American politician who served as mayor of Compton,California from 1993 until 2001.
Terry J. Hatter Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Alejandro Salazar is a Costa Rican-born American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Salazar served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles from 2004 to 2018. He resigned as auxiliary bishop in 2018 after a sexual misconduct charge against him was deemed credible by the archdiocese and the Vatican.
B. Kwaku Duren is a controversial African American former lawyer,educator,writer,editor,Black Panther,long-time social,political and community activist;and a former convict who now lives and practices law in South Central Los Angeles. He has run for United States Congress three times and once for Vice President of the United States. As a young man,he spent nearly five years in California prisons for armed robbery. He began reading extensively and taking college classes while incarcerated and after his parole in the fall of 1970,he founded and chaired the National Poor People's Congress. A couple of years later,he and his younger sister,Betty Scott,along with Mary Blackburn and other community activists,founded an alternate school –the Intercommunal Youth Institute (1972–1975) –in Long Beach,California.
The History of African Americans in Los Angeles includes participation in the culture,education,and politics of the city of Los Angeles,California,United States.
Mila Tupper Maynard was an American Unitarian minister,writer,social reformer and suffragist. She is thought to have been the first female minister in Nevada.
Nanette Díaz Barragán is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for California's 44th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she was a Hermosa Beach City councilmember from 2013 to 2015.
James Hart Stern was an African American Baptist minister,civil rights activist,speaker,and author from Los Angeles,California. He was most well known for his work defusing gang violence through a series of summits in the 1980s and 1990s and for his incarceration with Edgar Ray Killen,the former KKK leader who was convicted of the 1964 Mississippi Burning murders.
