Description
2016-1520.Bust-length portrait.Born in 1933, in Los Angeles, California. Pursued a career in education, elected to Los Angeles Unified School Board in 1975, elected to California Senate in 1978 - first African-American woman to serve in the Senate. Member of California Legislative Black Caucus from 1978-1998. In 1998, appointed U.S. Ambassador to Federated States of Micronesia; in 2001 elected to the U.S. House, where she served until 2011.
Image
Unmediated Sheet Photographs.Portraits.Nonprojected Graphic
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California Digital LibraryKeywords
- African American Legislators
- African American Women
- African Americans
- Ambassadors
- Biography
- California
- California Legislative Black Caucus
- California. Legislature. Assembly
- Legislators
- Los Angeles
- Photographic Prints
- Photographs
- Portrait Photographs
- Portraits
- Sacramento (Calif.)
- United States
- United States. Congress. House
- Watson, Diane E
- Women
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