Monica Moorehead
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Monica Gail Moorehead (born 1952, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is a frequent candidate of the Workers World Party, a U.S. left-wing party. An African American, she is a former school teacher, and has been a political activist since high school. She distributed newspapers for the Black Panther Party and subsequently joined the WWP in 1972. She rose to the national leadership in 1979.
Her presidential campaign in 1996 received around 29,000 votes. In 2000 she received 4,795 votes; that year she was only on the ballot in Florida, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin.[1] On both occasions, her vice-presidential running-mate was Gloria LaRiva.
Other works include being the author of Feminism and Marxism in the 90's.
In 2004, Moorehead was one of the campaign managers for the party's next presidential candidate, John Parker.
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| Preceded by Gloria LaRiva |
Workers World Party Presidential candidate 1996 (lost), 2000 (lost) |
Succeeded by John Parker |
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