Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Augustus Hawkins, 1907-2007
Claudia Luther and Valerie J. Nelson in the Los Angeles Times report the death of Augustus Hawkins, the first black Californian elected to Congress.
Labels:
California,
Los Angeles,
Louisiana,
obituaries,
political history,
race and ethnicity,
social history,
urban history
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