The Independent - London, October 1st, 1998
WHEN TOM Bradley became mayor of Los Angeles in 1973, he upset a widely held establishment belief that the city should be run by a strictly white Protestant elite. Not only was he black, but a black liberal who believed fervently that the ethnic and racial diversity of his adoptive city should be the key to its development and future prosperity.
By the time his fifth and last term in office ended 20 years later, Bradley had endured more than his share of political knocks and disappointments - notably the riots that tore the city apart the year before his retirement - but his legacy proved to ...
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