For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics

Understandably, the blurb on this book makes the point that a century or so before Barack Obama ran for the presidency, the little-known George Edwin Taylor was the first African American ticketed as a political party's nominee for president of the United States. [...]the book reveals the swirling currents of northern African American thought.