Charlene Mitchell

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

Life

Mitchell, who spent their youth together with five brothers and two stepbrothers and sisters in Cincinnati, Chicago and Los Angeles, began in politics at the age of 13 years in the American Youth for Democracy ( AYD ) to commit to the end of racial segregation. Already at the age of 16 she joined the CPUSA. In 1988, she ran the second time for a political office when she applied for the Independent Progressive Party for the office of the Senator from New York. With this choice, it achieved a profit of 0.24 %. Within the CPUSA she was a member of the Politburo to the party leadership. In 1992, she was in the CPUSA in a group against the neo-Stalinist political course of the Leninists Gus Hall, who was then chairman of the party, turned and lost, so this group founded the CCDS. This represented a democratic socialism.