Movements throughout history have sought to change systems of inequality and spurred leaders from within those movements to enter the political arena as candidates for elected office. Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, ran a formidable campaign for mayor of Oakland, California, in 1973. DeRay McKesson was led to activism following the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. McKesson, a Baltimore native, returned to his hometown in 2015 to run fo...
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd
New York, NY
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Blvd
New York, NY
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