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...first black candidate. Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972, winning 152 delegates. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass won a single, complimentary vote at the 1888 Republican Convention...
...three nuclear weapons resolutions, sponsored by a coalition of national religious groups, were directed at McDonnell Douglass and General Electric...
...represent the interests of Black people, these men fought the abolition of slavery because they felt that the resulting freedmen would be worse off than they had been as slaves. The parallel becomes still more striking when one remembers that in the meantime, ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass fought vehemently for abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than he), so does Robert Conway ignore the sentiments of men like Nelson Mandela, the late Steven Biko, and the late Nobel Prize Winner and African National Congress Chairman Albert...
...first black to be considered by a major party or the presidency was the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who received a single, complimentary vote at the 1888 Republican Convention. In 1972, New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm entered the Democratic race and in 14 primaries picked up 28 delegates...
...vote concerned a resolution to McDonnell Douglass asking the company to withdraw its bids for cruise missile contracts. Kossan said that two committee members voted for the resolution and seven abstained...