I’m going to fact check tonight, @maddow. Charlotte Bass, also from California, was the first Black woman to run for Vice President...for the Progressive Party in 1952. Credit where credit is due - Black women have been in this games for a long time. #Vanguard
Erase Charlotta Bass, if you will, by adding the qualifier “major party candidate to @KamalaHarris’s distinction. But to do so is to erase the centrality of Black radical politics to the history of American democracy.
Please you all. Don’t use the distinction of @KamalaHarris as a Black woman to also erase the record of another Black woman, Charlotta Bass. https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/bass.html
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