27 Facts About Lenora Fulani

Lenora Fulani is best known for her presidential campaigns and development of youth programs serving minority communities in the New York City area.

Lenora Fulani received more votes for president in a US general election than any other woman until Jill Stein of the Green Party of the United States in 2012.

Lenora Fulani has worked closely since 1980 with Fred Newman, a New York-based psychotherapist and political activist who has often served as her campaign manager.

Lenora Fulani joined activists who supported Ross Perot for president in the 1992 United States presidential election in a national effort to create a new pro-reform party.

For years Lenora Fulani was active with Newman's version of the International Workers Party.

Lenora Fulani's father died of pneumonia when she was 12.

In 1967, Lenora Fulani was awarded a scholarship to study at Hofstra University in New York.

Lenora Fulani graduated in 1971, and went on to earn a master's degree from Columbia University's Teachers College In the late 1970s, she earned a PhD in developmental psychology from the City University of New York.

Lenora Fulani was a guest researcher at Rockefeller University from 1973 to 1977, with a focus on how learning and social environment interact for African-American youth.

Lenora Fulani became active in the Newman-founded independent New Alliance Party and emerged as a spokesperson who often provoked controversy.

In 1982, Lenora Fulani ran for New York Lieutenant Governor on the NAP ticket.

Lenora Fulani has been involved in the affiliated Independent Workers Party, the Rainbow Alliance, and other shifting groups that were led by Newman.

Lenora Fulani helped to recruit the NAP's 1984 presidential candidate Dennis L Serrette, an African-American trade union activist.

Lenora Fulani ran for president in 1988 as the candidate of the New Alliance Party.

Lenora Fulani was, at the same, the first African-American, independent, and female presidential candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.

Lenora Fulani was endorsed that year by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Lenora Fulani chose former Peace and Freedom Party activist Maria Elizabeth Munoz as her vice-presidential running mate.

In 1992 Lenora Fulani self-published her autobiography The Making of a Fringe Candidate, 1992.

Lenora Fulani joined with Jacqueline Salit to start the Committee for a Unified Independent Party, which was formed to bring together independent groups to challenge the bipartisan hegemony in American politics.

Lenora Fulani even served briefly as co-chair of the campaign.

Lenora Fulani withdrew her endorsement and said that Buchanan was trying to further his right-wing agenda.

Later, Lenora Fulani unsuccessfully sought the vice-presidential nomination at the national convention organized by a faction of the Reform Party.

The party's state chairman, Frank MacKay, a former ally of Lenora Fulani, claimed the action to have followed Lenora Fulani's refusal to repudiate an earlier statement that many considered to be anti-Semitic.

Lenora Fulani said that she did not intend the statement as anti-Semitic but wanted to raise issues that she believed needed to be explored.

Lenora Fulani formed a coalition to organize Independence Party support for the re-election campaign of Bloomberg.

Lenora Fulani has worked on a number of community outreach and youth development projects.

Lenora Fulani dismissed his charges as related simply to the end of their personal relationship.