Augustus Freeman Gus Hawkins (August 31 1907 – November 10 2007) was a prominent American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor. He served as the first African American from California in the United States Congress. Over the course of his career Hawkins authored more than 300 state and federal laws the most famous of which are Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act.
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