“Election Rally for Clifton DeBerry.”
Students for DeBerry and Shaw
Amistad Research Center
New Orleans, United States
In 1964, Mississippi native Clifton DeBerry ran for President of the United States on the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) ticket, with fellow SWP member Ed Shaw from Illinois as his running mate. DeBerry’s civil rights activism and his association with the Community Party (and later the SWP) began in the 1950s. DeBerry was the party’s first African American candidate for President, and while some sources cite him as the first African American candidate of any party, his bid was preceded by Clennon King (Independent Afro-American Party, 1960) and George Edwin Taylor (National Negro Liberty Party, 1904).
- Title: “Election Rally for Clifton DeBerry.”
- Creator: Students for DeBerry and Shaw
- Type: document
- Rights: Physical rights are retained by the Amistad Research Center. The materials in this exhibition are being made available for personal and scholarly research use only. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. If you are the rightful copyright holder of an item represented in this exhibition and wishes to have it removed, please submit a request to reference@amistadresearchcenter.org including proof of ownership and clear identification of the work, preferably with URL.
- Repository: Amistad Research Center
- Extent: 1 p.
- Date: 1964
- Collection: Eric Steele Wells papers
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