Charlene Mitchell Bibliography Presidential Candidate, Communist Party USA (CPUSA), 1968

PRIMARY Speeches “We Come Forward.” Acceptance Speech upon CPUSA Nomination for President, July 1968.

Writing “Bush is Gone! Now Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves and Get Busy.” New Pittsburgh Courier, 14 November 1992, 7.

“Clinton Must Oust the Ultra-Right from Police, Military.” The Philadelphia Tribune, 1 January 1993, 6.

“The Dangers of the National Guard as Police.” New York Amsterdam News, 6 November 1993, 13.

Equality: Its Time has Come. New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1985.

The Fight to Free Angela Davis: Its Importance for the Working Class. New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1972.

“March? Yes, but for What?” Michigan Chronicle, 20 September 1995, 7.

“Republican Convention: Chilling and Horrific.” Sun Reporter, 2 September 1992, 5.

“The Triple-Layered Crisis and the Sharpened Edge of Racism.” Political Affairs (August 1985): 17-24.

Congressional Hearings U.S. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Racially Motivated Violence. March 4, June 3, November 12, 1981. (Testimony of Charlene Mitchell, p. 46-59). Available at LexisNexis Congressional Hearings. Accessed 9 August 2011.

U.S. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. The Southern California District of the Communist Party: Structure—Objectives—Leadership, Part 3. February 24- 25, 1959. (Testimony of Charlene Mitchell, p. 237-53). Available at LexisNexis Congressional Hearings. Accessed 9 August 2011.

U.S. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. Subversive Involvement in Disruption of 1968 Democratic Party National Convention Part 1. October 1, 3, 4, 1968. Available at Lexis Nexis Congressional Hearings. Accessed 12 August 2011.

U.S. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Griffin B. Bell, Nomination Hearings. January 11-14, 17-19, 1977. (Testimony of Charlene Mitchell, p. 370-74). Available at LexisNexis Congressional Hearings. Accessed 9 August 2011.

Interviews Untitled Interview with Charlene Mitchell by Lisa Brock, July 18, 2004. No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950- 2000. Website. http://www.noeasyvictories.org/interviews/int04_mitchell.php (12 July 2011).

Untitled Interview with Charlene Mitchell by Amber Cortes. WBAI, 2006. Available at http://www.youneverknowradio.com/2006/03/an-interview-with-charlene- mitchell/ (10 August 2011).

“Charlene Mitchell Discusses Events Leading Up to Angela Davis’s Indictment.” Recorded by WCFR, Amherst, MA. Los Angeles: Pacifica Radio Archive, January 18, 1971.

“Crisis in the CPUSA - Interview with Charlene Mitchell.” African Communist Journal Extracts No. 135, Fourth Quarter 1993. http://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv02424/04lv02730/05 lv03005/06lv03006/07lv03075/08lv03082.htm (12 July 2011)

FBI Files “Operation SOLO.” FBI Records: The Vault. Parts 1-22. Website. http://vault.fbi.gov/solo (11 July 2011).

SECONDARY Briggs, Andrew. “Communist Candidate Speaks at Valley State: It’s a Good Sign She’s Permitted to Do So She Says.” Los Angeles Times, 20 September 1968, SF8.

Collier, Barnard L. “Crowd Here Cool to Communists.” New York Times, October 1, 1968, 34.

“Communist in Race for President Asks U.S. to Brief Her.” New York Times, September 2, 1968, 20.

Davis, Angela and Genna Rae McNeil. “Tribute to Charlene Mitchell.” Black Women and the Radical Tradition Conference. Graduate Center for Worker Education, Brooklyn College, 2009. Available online at http://vimeo.com/10354190 (10 August 2011).

Elbaum, Max. “Split in US Communist Part.” Green Left, 29 January 1992. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1992/41/41p16.htm (24 April 2005).

Kihss, Peter. “Communists Name Negro Woman for President.” New York Times, July 8, 1968, p. 32.

Klehr, Harvey. The Communist Experience in America: A Political and Social History. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010.

Martin, Judith. “Communist Candidate Sees Red on Write-In Ballots.” Washington Post, 5 August 1968, C1.

“The Moratorium and the International Communist Movement.” Congressional Record 114 (November 13, 1969), p. S33981-90. Available at LexisNexis Congressional. Accessed 9 August 2011.

“NAAPR Condemns Recent LA Police Attack.” California Voice, 30 December 1992, 1.

Rawitch, Bob. “U.S. Red Candidate Backs Czech Invasion: Negro Woman Seeking Presidency Says Counter-Revolutionaries Threaten Nation.” Los Angeles Times, 17 September 1968, B16.

Samuel, Leah. “VOTE! Stop Right-Wing Takeover; 1968 Presidential Candidate Charlene Mitchell Speaks Out.” Michigan Citizen, 4 October 2003, 4.

Solomon, Mark. The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African-Americans, 1917-1936. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Townsend, Dorothy. “Communist Counts on Disgruntled Vote.” Los Angeles Times, 18 July 1968, B3.