Title: For labor, race, and liberty
Description: More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party's nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.-publisher's description.
Subjects: African American presidential candidates, Political activity, Biography, African American politicians, African americans, biography, Presidential candidates
People: George Edwin Taylor (1857-1925)
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century