On Presidents' Day of 2006, I presented Charlene Mitchell with a plate commemorating her role in Presidential History at an event at the City Reliquary in Brooklyn, NY, where the plates were on display. Here is an article in the
Queens Ledger with pictures of the ceremony.

In 1968, Charlene Mitchell, representing the communist party, became the first African-American woman to run for President, and also the first woman to be nominated by her party. An energetic civil rights activist for over 50 years, Mitchell has been an activist since she was a child in Chicago. She is the founding National Coordinator of the Committees of Correspondence for Socialism and Democracy, and serves as national co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the organization that grew out of the campaign to free Angela Davis, and was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Portraits of Charlene Mitchell, Bella Abzug, and Shirley Chisholm are included in "When Women Pursue Justice," a large wall mural recently completed by Artmakers, Inc. at 498 Greene Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Listen to WBAI producer Amber Cortes' interview with Charlene Mitchell.