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Jessie Mae Brown Beavers

1923–1989

United States

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Jessie Mae Brown Beavers (March 18, 1923 – September 6, 1989) was an American journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She was an editor at the Los Angeles Sentinel from 1949 to 1989, and served sixteen years on the city's Human Relations Commission, beginning with her 1973 appointment by mayor Tom Bradley.

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