What two African Americans ran for president?

1960 Clennon Washington King, Jr. ran for President representing the Afro-American party 1964 Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie ran for President 1964 Clifton DeBerry ran for President representing the Socialist Party - he ran again in 1980 1968 Charlene Mitchell ran for President as a Communist Party candidate 1968 Comedian Dick Gregory ran for President as a write-in candidate with the Freedom and Peace party 1968 Eldridge Cleaver ran for President representing the Peace and Freedom party but was ruled ineligible because of his age 1972 Shirley Chisholm (first African American Congresswoman) ran for President 1972 Water E Fauntroy (U.S. Congressman) ran for President 1980 Clifton DeBerry 1984 & 1988 Reverend Jesse Jackson (Civil Rights Activist with Martin Luther King, Jr.) ran for President 1984 & 1988 Larry Holmes was the Workers World Party candidate for President 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 Isabell Masters ran for President as a Looking Back Party candidate 1988 Lenora Fulani (a psychologist and social activist) ran for President and was the first African American to be on the ballot in all 50 states 1992 Joan Jett Blakk (a.k.a.) Terence Smith was a Queer Nation Presidential candidate 1992 Ronald Daniels (political activist) was a Peace and Freedom party candidate for President 1992 Helen Halyard ran for President representing the Socialist Equality party 1996 & 2000 Alan Keyes (a former diplomat) ran for President 1996 & 2000 James Harris was the Socialist Workers party Presidential candidate 1996 & 2000 Monica Moorehead was a Workers World Party candidate for President 2004 Carol Moseley Braun (first African American female senator) ran for President 2004 Reverend Al Sharpton (Civil Rights Activist) ran for President 2004 John Parker was Communist Party candidate for President 2008 Elaine Brown, former chairperson of the Black Panther Party, ran for President with the Green Party 2008 Cynthia McKinney, (U.S. Congresswoman) was the Green Party's Presidential nominee 2008 Barack Hussein Obama ran for President and was elected as the first African American President