(1) About what percentage of people are black in Los Angeles?
A)16 percent
B)36 percent
C)60 percent
(2) What is true about Thomas Bradley?
A)He served three terms in the police
B)He used to be a poor farmer
C)He was born in a parmer's family
(3) How many terms had the previous city's mayor served?
A)Two terms
B)Three terms
C)Four terms
(4) Why did Los Angeles voters elect Thomas Bradley as mayor of Los Angeles?
A)Because he earned a law degree in a night school
B)Because they had formed a good opinion of him
C)Because there was a large population of black people in Los Angeles
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On May 29,1973,Thomas Bradley,a black man was elected mayor of Los Angeles.Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States ,with a population of three million.About sixteen percent of the city's population is black.
News of the election appeared on the front page of newspapers everywhere in the United States.Bradley called his victory"the fulfillment of a dream".During his youth and childhood people had kept telling him,"You can't do this ,you can't go there,because you're a Negro."Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been the city's mayor for three terms.Bradley had won 56.3 percent of the votes.
Los Angeles voters had had many opportunities to judge Thomas Bradley and to form an opinion of him.The son of a poor farmer from Texas,he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940.During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night.
In Los Angeles thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate.