Charlotta Bass

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2020
  

  Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass

  Charlotta Bass led a remarkable life as a journalist and activist that, in many ways, helped lay the foundation for a figure like Harris, the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be nominated on a major-party ticket.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  8/23/2020
  

  Film Shows Trailblazing Black Female Editor, VP Candidate

  A new documentary short highlights the journalistic and political career of Charlotta Bass, the Progressive Party candidate for Vice President in 1952.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/12/2020
  

  Kamala Harris isn’t the First Black Woman to Run for VP. Meet Charlotta Bass

  Historians Martha S. Jones, Eric McDuffie and Denise Lynn identify the Los Angeles newspaper publisher and civil rights activist of the mid-20th century as a key figure paving the way for Kamala Harris and contemporary women of color in politics.