Paul Boutelle
Kwame Montsho Ajamu Somburu (born Paul Benjamin Boutelle;
Activism
Boutelle campaigned as a socialist candidate for
In December 1965, Boutelle organized the Afro-Americans Against the War in Vietnam (AAAWV) group.
Vice-Presidential Candidate (1968)
Boutelle was the
Boutelle also toured internationally during the 1968 campaign to Canada, England, Scotland, and France. His national tour of France was cancelled because of the nationwide worker and student strikes and protests during the spring of 1968. His sponsoring organization was one of 22 banned by the French government.
On July 10, 1968, Boutelle appeared on the political talk show Firing Line.[3]
References
- ^ Roberts, Sam (May 11, 2016). "Kwame Samburu, Perennial Socialist Candidate, Dies at 81". The New York Times. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
- ^ a b Wright, Richard (August 3, 1970). "Interview with Boutelle, Paul (1934) (Aka Kwame Somburu), Member, Socialist Worker's Party. Candidate, New York's Eighteenth Congressional District, 1970. Founder, Freedom Now Party, New York City, 1964". Gale Primary Sources. Gale Document Number: GALE|SC5109609628. p. 64. Retrieved April 9, 2020 – via Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.
- ^ Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Socialist Workers' Party and American Politics, retrieved 2023-07-31
External links
- "The Black Uprisings: Newark 1967 Detroit" Socialist Workers Party pamphlet with introduction by Paul Boutelle. - via Marxists.org
- Paul Boutelle and Fred Halstead on William Buckley's Firing Line television program, July 10, 1968 (episode 111): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpV5xr3tQoE - via Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University.
Bibliography
- (1969). "2 Socialist Parties File For Mayoralty." The New York Times. September 5.
- Alexander, Robert (1991). International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Jones, Charles E., ed (1998). The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered). Baltimore: Black Classics Press.
- (1967). "Socialist Workers Party Names Antiwar Slate for '68 Election." The New York Times. August 31.
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