Charlene Mitchell ran as a Presidential Candidate for the Communist Party USA in the 1968 Presidential elections. This election would make Mitchell the first African American to run for US President. Shirley Chisholm became the first black major-party candidate to run for Present of the United States, in the 1972 U.S. Presidential election. Mitchell was […]
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