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Mel Mason for governor of California campaign ephemera, 1982.
BANC MSS 2011/8
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Title:
Mel Mason for governor of California campaign ephemera, 1982Creator/Contributor:
Mason, Melvin T., creatorAbstract:
Contains campaign flyers, publications, reprints, one campaign button, and calendar of campaign events in San Francisco for
June, 1982. Most of the literature concerns worker rights and opposition to nuclear power and the American intervention in
El Salvador and contains several images of Mason.
Date:
1982 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMason, Mel -- Archives
Mason, Mel -- Portraits
Governors -- California -- Election
African American politicians -- California
Political campaigns -- California
Elections -- California
Socialists -- California
Note:
Mel Mason for governor of California campaign ephemera,1982, BANC MSS 2011/8, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Purchase; from Bolerium Books; 20100818.
Melvin T. Mason is a civil rights activist and educator who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States
President in 1984. Mason also ran twice for Governor of California in 1978 and in 1982 as an independent candidate.
In English, with some Spanish.
Type:
Campaign literature-California-20th century.Ephemera.
Badges.
Physical Description:
print
1 folder.
Language:
English
Spanish
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2011/8