Editorial: Nominate a Californian: Who most deserves a statue in the U.S. Capitol? (via latimesopinion)
, the brilliant African American diplomat who was the valedictorian at both Jefferson High School and UCLA — where he worked his way through school — and won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing about armistice in the Middle East.and naturalist John Muir, who was instrumental in the creation of Yosemite, Kings and Sequoia national parks. He wrote some ignorant and nasty things about Native Americans in his earlier work but later came to change his viewpoints.was an extraordinary early resident.
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