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Tom Bradley (mayor) Thomas Bradley (December 29, 1917 – September 29, 1998) was an American politician, athlete, police officer, and lawyer who served as the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993. Bradley was Los Angeles' first Black mayor, first liberal mayor, and longest-serving mayor.
Tom Bradley (born December 29, 1917, Calvert, Texas, U.S.—died September 29, 1998, Los Angeles, California) was an American politician, the first African American mayor of a predominantly white city, who served an unprecedented five terms as mayor of Los Angeles (1973–93). The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves, Bradley grew up ...
Tom Bradley was 80 years old. Tom Bradley’s story is a classic American success story; the grandson of slaves and son of sharecroppers who fought prejudice and bigotry to transform a major U.S. city, and in the process, transcended the barriers of race to realize the American dream. Yet, this film is far more important than a man and his dreams.
Tom Bradley was way ahead of his time because he put together the same kind of majority that elected Barack Obama president. But he did it in '73. (Woodard) Tom Bradley's story gives us a glimpse ...
Watch on. BRIDGING THE DIVIDE tells the story of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley-the nation's first African American mayor elected in an overwhelming white city. Mayor for an unprecedented 20 years, Tom Bradley transformed the city of Los Angeles into a world-class metropolis and became a formidable force for change in American politics.
Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream the film now with KPBS Passport! Learn how Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, the first black mayor elected in a major U.S. city with a white ...
Clip | 3m 42s. Learn how Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, the first black mayor elected in a major U.S. city with a white majority, united a divided city through a unique multi-racial coalition ...
Tom Bradley was the first, and so far only, African American mayor of Los Angeles. He served the city for 20 years, from 1973-1993, [photo undated]. Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection. Bradley was born December 29, 1917, to Lee and Crenner Bradley, once sharecroppers living in a small log cabin in Texas.
Mayor Tom Bradley. The Bradley effect, less commonly known as the Wilder effect, [1][2] is a theory concerning observed discrepancies between voter opinion polls and election outcomes in some United States government elections where a white candidate and a non-white candidate run against each other. [3][4][5] The theory proposes that some white ...
Lyn Goldfarb and Alison Sotomayor began the groundwork for BRIDGING THE DIVIDE while working on THE NEW LOS ANGELES, an hour-long documentary, part of the 2006 national primetime PBS series, CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. THE NEW LOS ANGELES is a portrait of a city in transition, beginning in 1973 with the election of Mayor Tom Bradley and ...
Tom Bradley became Los Angeles’ first African-American mayor in 1973 by bringing together a multiracial coalition of Blacks, Jews, white liberals and Latinos in the years after the Watts Riots.
The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of a slave, Tom Bradley was born in a log cabin but his journey paved the way for social justice in American politics, a legacy matched only by his impact on the city he led as the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles. Bradley’s prowess at track earned him a scholarship to UCLA, following which he rose to the rank of lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police ...
The Tom Bradley Effect. By Legacy Staff September 29, 2012. 4. Elected to an unprecedented five terms as mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley remains one of the nation’s greatest racial pioneers 14 ...
Tom Bradley’s Los Angeles. Los Angeles elected its first black mayor with a multicultural coalition. “I must say, I never expected it to stoop this low,” says Tom Bradley. He’s sitting behind a desk, looking more composed than alarmed, in footage from 1969, the first year he campaigned to be Los Angeles’s mayor.
Tom Bradley, the Texas sharecropper's son and ex-cop who for two decades reigned over the nation's second-largest city during its highest point - the 1984 Olympics - and its lowest - the Rodney ...
Tom Bradley (1917-1998) Thomas J. “Tom” Bradley, five-term Mayor of Los Angeles and the first major black candidate for Governor of California, was born in Calvert, Texas, on December 29, 1917, the son of Lee Thomas Bradley, a railroad porter, and Crenner Bradley, a maid. He was the grandson of former slaves. Bradley graduated from Los ...
Fox 11 takes a look back at the legacy of Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley who shattered barriers. For more historical videos, visit: http://foxla.com/kttv70
On May 29. 1973, City Councilman Tom Bradley defeated the incumbent Sam Yorty to become the first L.A. Mayor of African American ancestry, as well as the first black mayor of a major U.S. city. Born in Calvert, Texas to a sharecropping family, Bradley moved along with them to Los Angeles at the age of 7, where he grew up in what is now the ...
Tom Bradley, the slaves' grandson whose historic 1973 election as Los Angeles' first black mayor launched an unprecedented 20-year tenure as head of a roiling, fast-growing city, died Tuesday.
Tom Brady — who shares son Jack, 17, with Bridget Moynahan and children Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11, with Gisele Bündchen — shared that he knows he has "screwed up a lot as a parent