Angeles on June 14, 1972, just days after she won a Congressional primary against Billy Mills, a Los Angeles City Council member for whom William Burke had worked. Their daughter Autumn Burke was born on November 23, 1973. Yvonne and Autumn are the first mother-and-daughter to both serve in the California Assembly. Memberships Burke is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Burke is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. See also Women in the United States House of Representatives List of African-American United States representatives References Further reading "Yvonne Brathwaite Burke", Africana: The Encyclopedia. Ebony (September 1967). "Women Who Make State Laws": pp. 27–34. Gray, Pamela Lee. "Yvonne Brathwaite Burke: The Congressional Career of California's First Black Congresswoman, 1972–1978." Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 1987. External links Yvonne Burke's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project Join California Yvonne Brathwaite Burke |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1932 births 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American women politicians 21st-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians African-American members of the United States House of Representatives African-American state legislators in California African-American women in politics Amtrak people Candidates in the 1978 United States elections Female members of the United States House of Representatives Jones Day people Living people Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California People from Brentwood, Los Angeles People from South Los Angeles Politicians from Los Angeles USC Gould School of Law alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Women state legislators in California 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American politicians 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American politicians