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Birth Date
- 1920-07-18
Death Date
- 2000-02-12
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Brown Media Archive Newsfilm Database, metadata for clip dated 1962, no. wsbn42179, viewed April 8, 2015:(Series of WSB newsfilm clips of Clennon Washington King, Jr. and an unidentified African American woman visiting his parents' house in Albany, Georgia, 1962) - http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn42179
- found: Wikipedia, viewed October 30, 2020:Clennon Washington King, Jr. page (Clennon Washington King Jr. (July 18, 1920 - February 12, 2000) was the second African-American man to run for the office of President of the United States after George Edwin Taylor, and whose attempts at civil rights actions and running for office as a perennial candidate caused him to be nicknamed "The Black Don Quixote". In 1960, King ran for president as candidate of the Independent Afro-American Party with Reginald Carter as his running mate, winning 1,485 votes in Alabama, making him (by some accounts) the first African-American candidate for President) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clennon_Washington_King_Jr.
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- 2020-10-30: new
- 2021-01-20: revised
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