Tom Bradley was the son of sharecroppers and grandson of enslaved people. He grew up in poverty, excelled in sports, attended UCLA on an athletic scholarship, and joined the Los Angeles police department in 1940. He earned a law degree in 1956 and became the first African American elected to the Los Angeles city council in 1963.
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