International Women’s Day Event: Black Women’s Struggle for Democracy and Socialism

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Among those whose lives will be highlighted: are

• Artist Elizabeth Catlett

• CPUSA leader and former SNCC activist Debbie Bell

• Labor leader Etta Furlow

• Anti-Jim Crow campaigner Edna Griffin

Special note will also be taken of the outstanding contributions of:

• Charlene Mitchell, the first Black woman to run for U.S. president, the Communist Party’s nominee in 1968
• Dorothy Burnham, Southern Negro Youth activist, and longtime CPUSA leader.

The celebration is sponsored by the New York Bureau of People’s World, the African American Commission of the Communist Party, and the CP’s NY district.

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