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A Short Biography of Ezola Broussard Foster

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Ezola Broussard Foster

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Ezola Broussard Foster

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08 Jul 1938

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Conservative political activist                          
What's Right for All Americans - 1995                          
                          
                          
The first time in history that an African-American had been nominated for Vice-President by an FEC-recognized and federally-funding political party, and the second time a woman had accomplished this, Democrat Geraldine Ferraro being the first.

Sought public office prior to 2000 - as a Democrat in the 1970s and as a Republican candidate for California State Assembly in 1984.

Arrested in 1987 with several other women while disrupting the state Republican convention to protest its recognition of the Log Cabin Club, an organization of gay Republicans.

A staunch defender of the police officers in the Rodney King beating case and organized a testimonial dinner for Laurence Powell, one of the convicted officers, in 1995.