content | sioc:content | Councilman Gil Lindsay, Councilman Tom Bradley (back) and Dr. King with other supporters of Civil Rights Movement at the Freedom Rally, Wrigley Field. Tom Bradley was elected as a member of the Los Angeles City Council in April 1963 and became the first African American mayor of the city a decade later in 1973. This photo demonstrates the multi-racial character of the Civil Rights Movement. 1963 |