12 Facts About Clifton DeBerry

Clifton DeBerry was an American communist and two-time candidate for President of the United States of the Socialist Workers Party.

Clifton DeBerry was the first black American in the 20th century to be chosen by a political party as its nominee for president.

Clifton DeBerry was born in September 1923 in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Clifton DeBerry worked as a house painter and was a trade unionist.

Clifton DeBerry became active in the Farm Equipment Workers Union and joined the Communist Party.

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Clifton DeBerry grew critical of the official Communist movement, and in 1953 he joined the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist organization.

Clifton DeBerry marched for civil rights in Selma, Alabama and Memphis, Tennessee and was a supporter of Malcolm X in the 1960s.

Clifton DeBerry was a delegate to the founding conventions of the Negro Labor Congress and the Negro American Labor Council.

In November 1963, Clifton DeBerry ran for councilman in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Clifton DeBerry was the Socialist Workers Party's candidate in the 1964 election.

Clifton DeBerry was the party's first African American candidate as well as the first African American candidate for president of any existing party .

Clifton DeBerry ran again in the 1980 United States presidential election as one of three candidates the party had that year, the others being Andrew Pulley and Richard Congress.