Another Chosen, a bigot from South Africa named Janwillem Kroef, eventually left the group because it contained non-white members.

One of Sylvester's high school musical groups was a doo-wop act called The Viscaynes, in which he and a Filipino teenager were the only non-white members.

Two of its seven members are parents of children attending public schools, two are black and two Hispanic - a first-time majority of non-white members.

Louisa M. Chan, the first non-white member of School Board 24, considers herself an unlikely battler in the rough and tumble of ethnically charged city politics.

Soon, racist distinctions fell as California unions began to admit non-white members.

One of these was The Viscaynes, a doo-wop group in which Sylvester and his Filipino friend, Frank Arelano, were the only non-white members.

In 2000 Malik was elected as the first non-white member to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.

She is one of six non-white members of the 651-seat Parliament, and the likelihood is that there will be at least nine in the new 659-seat Parliament.

Hodge has moved the centre of her operations to the town, knocked on doors and recruited 150 members, many non-white.