Charlene Alexander Mitchell (June 8, 1930 – December 14, 2022) was an American international socialist, feminist, labor and civil rights activist. In 1968, she became the first Black woman candidate for President of the United States.

Jan 8, 2023 · After her run for President, and in the midst of Nixon’s transformation of anticommunism and New Right politics, Mitchell’s writings became more strident: “The current aim of the conspiracy by government is to act as a preventive to mass …

M innesota’s Secretary of State Joseph L. Donovan was not about to accept petitions nominating Mrs. Charlene Mitchell, a 38-year-old Negro, and Youth Leader Mike Zagarell, 23, for President and...

Charlene Mitchell was the Founding National Co-ordinator of the Committees of Correspondence. She serves as national co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression , the organization that grew out of the campaign to free Angela Davis.

The appellants brought an action in the the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota seeking a declaration that the Communist Control Act was constitutionally invalid and praying for a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction requiring the Secretary to include the names of the appellant candidates on the November ...

Dec 22, 2022 · Charlene (Alexander) Mitchell, a leader of the movement to free imprisoned activist Angela Davis and the Communist Party USA’s nominee for president in 1968, died on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.

Dec 30, 2022 · Charlene Alexander Mitchell (1930-2022) was an admired courageous international freedom fighter. On behalf of the Wilmington Ten and all political prisoners in America, we humbly and solemnly pause to render a memorial tribute to our beloved Sister Queen Mother Freedom Fighter, Charlene A. Mitchell.

Jan 3, 2023 · Civil rights activist Charlene Mitchell, a long-time Communist Party leader and freedom fighter, passed away in Manhattan, New York, on Dec. 14, 2022. She was 92.

It was on the face of it that solidarity was a two-way street." — Charlene Mitchell. Introduction. For Charlene Mitchell, a lifelong activist who joined the Communist Party USA in 1946 at age 16, solidarity with Africa was always a central component of her political vision.

Feb 15, 2023 · A 1971 interview with the late Charlene Mitchell reminds us of both the need for Black radical struggle against capitalism, militarism, and racism, and the contradictions of inter-racial organizing around US foreign and domestic terror.