Monica Moorehead

A political activist since high school, Moorehead distributed newspapers for the Black Panther Party and subsequently joined the WWP in 1972.

She appeared on the ballot in 12 states and received around 29,000 votes, 0.3 percent of all cast, the best-ever showing for a WWP candidate in a presidential election.

She also edited the book Marxism, Reparations, and the Black Freedom Struggle, a collection of articles from Workers World newspaper, written by herself and others.

[2] Moorehead ran in the Peace and Freedom Party's presidential primary in California, and received 1,487 votes, 29.72 percent of all ballots cast.

Moorehead lost to Gloria la Riva, by then a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, who won with 49.47 percent of the vote.