Channing Emery Phillips (March 23, 1928 – November 11, 1987) was an American minister, civil rights leader, and social activist based in Washington, D.C.

In 1968, he was the first African American in history to be placed in nomination for president of the United States by a major political party.

For seven years, Phillips served as the pastor of Lincoln Temple, United Church of Christ, in Washington.

But, following Senator Kennedy's assassination in early June in California, the delegation voted instead to nominate Rev.

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass received votes for president at the 1888 Republican National Convention, but it does not appear from the official record that his name was put into nomination.

[2] In 1971 Phillips ran to become the first congressional delegate to the United States House of Representatives from D.C., but lost the Democratic primary to Walter E. Fauntroy.