Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968
*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968
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Paul Boutelle’s 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign
This piece is the fourth installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links
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A Black Woman Communist Candidate: Charlene Mitchell’s 1968 Presidential Campaign
This piece is the third installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links
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Pushing Beyond the Two-Party System: Dick Gregory’s 1968 Presidential Campaign
In a March 2011 profile of African American comedian Dick Gregory written for GQ magazine, journalist Robert Chalmers mused, “it’s
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African American Presidential Politics and the Black Radical Imagination
In March 1969, at a grade school in Washington, D.C., an eclectic audience gathered to celebrate the inauguration of comedian
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