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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:32 am: | 
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...there was Charlotta Spears Bass:
Though partisans continue to debate the merits and demerits of Sarah Palin’s candidacy, the fact is that she is the first female vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party. This is also true of Geraldine Ferrarro for the Democratic Party in 1984. But even Ferrarro cannot lay claim to being the first female vice presidential nominee on the national ballot.
That honor goes to Charlotta Spears Bass who ran for Vice President of the United States on the Progressive Party ticket in 1952. Bass was also the first African American female to run for the office. Her candidacy did not cause a media sensation. In fact she was virtually ignored by most news outlets. An exception is Time magazine’s brief scoff that the Progressive Party’s platform is the usual “shocking pink,” and dismissal of Bass as “dumpy,” “domineering,” and “husbandless"...
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