Frederick Madison Roberts
John Malveaux of
writes:
Celebrate 100th anniversary of UCLA and remember Frederick Madison Roberts.
Frederick M. Roberts
Contributed by Robert Fikes
Running
in 1918 as a Republican to represent California’s 62nd Assembly
District, he defeated a candidate who handed out cards reading “My
opponent is a nigger,” and thus became the first black in the state and
on the West Coast to ascend to such high political office. During
Roberts’s 16 years in the State Assembly he sponsored legislation to
establish the University of California at Los Angeles, expand the use of
school textbooks, and he proposed civil rights and anti-lynching
measures.
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