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Victoria Woodhull is recognized as the first woman to run for president. She was nominated for president by the small Equal Rights Party. [13] Frederick Douglass was nominated for vice president, although he did not attend the convention, acknowledge his nomination, or take an active role in the campaign. [14]
In 1850, Douglass was elected the vice president of the American League of Colored Laborers, the first black labor union in the United States, which he had also helped found. [119] Meanwhile, in 1851, he merged the North Star with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party paper to form Frederick Douglass' Paper, [120] which was published until 1859. [121]
African-American vice presidential nominees, showing running mate and popular votes received Year Name Party Running mate Popular votes 1872: Frederick Douglass [18] Equal Rights Party: Victoria Woodhull: Unreported 1928: Simon P. Drew: Interracial Independent Party [19] Jacob S. Coxey [20] [21] 1932: James W. Ford: Communist Party: William Z ...
The 1888 Republican National Convention was a presidential nominating convention held at the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois, on June 19–25, 1888.It resulted in the nomination of former Senator Benjamin Harrison of Indiana for president and Levi P. Morton of New York, a former Representative and Minister to France, for vice president.
Douglass delivered the speech in the midst of the battle over civil rights for Black people, addressing the threat posed to the nation by a racist President who refused to give them the full ...
EXCLUSIVE: Invited guests include the descendants and families of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., […] The post White House to convene descendants of ...
Frederick Douglass was invited to speak at the 1888 Republican National Convention. Afterward, during the roll call vote, he received one vote, so was nominally a candidate for the presidency. In those years, the candidates for the position and vice presidency were chosen by state representatives voting at the nominating convention.
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts ...