in Black History June 5, 1973

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Former Compton schoolteacher Doris A. Davis, who had been elected the city’s first Black city clerk, defeats incumbent Mayor Douglas Dollarhide to become the nation’s first African-American woman to govern a metropolitan U.S. city. 

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