Clifton Deberry For President Tapestry

Clifton DeBerry was an American communist and two-time candidate for President of the United States for the Socialist Workers Party. He was the first black American in the 20th century to be chosen by a political party as its nominee for president. DeBerry's career as a political activist began in earnest in the 1950s. In 1955 he helped organize a mass protest in Chicago to protest the lynching of Emmett Till back home in his native Mississippi.[6] DeBerry spoke out in defense of the Cuban Revolution, in support of African liberation struggles, and demanded withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. DeBerry marched for civil rights in Selma, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee and was a supporter of Malcolm X in the 1960s. He was a delegate ...