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You Chung Hong (Chinese: 洪耀宗; pinyin: Hóng Yàozōng; May 4, 1898 – November 8, 1977) was an American attorney and community leader who was the second Chinese American lawyer admitted to practice law in the state of California, having passed the bar examination in 1923 [1] before he became the first Chinese American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School.
Stephen Mallory White (January 19, 1853 – February 21, 1901) was an American attorney and politician from California.A Democrat, he was most notable for his service as a U.S. Senator from 1893 to 1899.
The Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad was the first railroad in Los Angeles, photo ca.1880. This put them in conflict with Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Company and one of California's "Big Four" investors in the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific.
Wolfenstein's Los Angeles photography studio on Main Street, circa 1869 Flash-lamp photography. Valentin Wolfenstein (19 April 1845 – 3 February 1909) was a Swedish-American photographer who worked both in Stockholm and Los Angeles, California. He was one of the first photographers to use flash-lamps for photography.
The Immigration Act of 1891 led to the establishment of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and the opening of the Ellis Island inspection station in 1892. Constitutional authority (Article 1 §8) was later relied upon to enact the Naturalization Act of 1906 which standardized procedures for naturalization nationwide, and created the Bureau of ...
Thousands of raucous protesters rallied against President Trump’s renewed effort to deport illegal migrants and ground traffic to a standstill on a Los Angeles freeway Sunday afternoon.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that a tactic used by federal immigration agents in Southern California to arrest people in their homes without a judicial warrant is unconstitutional and ...
Georgia Bullock (1913): [27] [28] First female judge in Los Angeles County, California (1931) May Darlington Lahey (1914): [412] First female (who was Australian) to serve as the Presiding Judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court (c. 1943) Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1917): [413] First female Public Defender of Los Angeles County, California (c ...