Charlene Mitchell

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Charlene Alexander Mitchell (* 1930 in Cincinnati ) is an American politician on the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She was a former member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), for which she ran for the office of President of the United States in 1968 as the first woman and the first African American woman . However, they could, and their candidate for the office of Vice President , Michael Zagarell to compete in only two states. In these states it was able to collect 1,077 votes, nationwide in the rounded end result of 0.00%.

Life

Mitchell, who spent her youth with five siblings and two step-siblings in Cincinnati, Chicago and Los Angeles , began to be politically active in the American Youth for Democracy (AYD) for the end of racial segregation at the age of 13 . She joined the CPUSA at the age of 16. In 1988 she ran for political office for the second time when she ran for the office of Senator from New York for the Independent Progressive Party . In this election she achieved a result of 0.24%. Within the CPUSA she belonged to the party leadership as a member of the Politburo . In 1992 she was in the CPUSA in a group that opposed the neo-Stalinist political course of the Leninist Gus Hall , who was party leader at the time, and lost, so this group founded the CCDS. These represent a democratic socialism .

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  1. ↑ Report on women in US presidential elections (English)
  2. ↑ final outcome of the US presidential election in 1968 (English)
  3. ↑ Overview of the Senatorial Elections in New York in 1988 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mitchell, Charlene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mitchell, Charlene Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (CPUSA, CCDS)
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio