Examiner front page on Harvey Milk's election to the board
1977
The San Francisco Examiner marks Milk's victory in the Board of Supervisors race under the headline calling him an unofficial supervisor finally given real power. Text by W. E. Barnes with photographs by Judith Calson, running on page A-1. Milk is pictured with his dog.
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