"Like everyone else I was misled by the size and the enthusiasm of the crowds that Wallace was attracting across the country. In Los Angeles ten thousand Chicanos came to hear Wallace speak in Lincoln Park under the banner of "Amigos de Wallace," and twenty-five hundred blacks came to hear him speak in Watts. We filled Gilmore Stadium, with its 32,000 seats, on three occasions. Charlie Chaplin endorsed him; Katharine Hepburn spoke at the first of those Gilmore Stadium meetings and made a very powerful speech supporting Wallace and attacking red-baiting. The Students for Wallace movement was very strong at UCLA, and we recruited many young people into the Party as a result. In Berkeley, Wallace was banned from speaking on campus but managed to attract eight thousand students to hear him speak from a sidewalk adjoining the campus. In the California primaries in June, about a half million people cast ballots for candidates who had filed or cross-filed as Progressives, one fifth of the total primary vote. It was a very energizing campaign, and no one in the Party thought that Wallace could possibly end up with less than five million votes nationwide."
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United States presidential candidates, 1948Vice Presidents of the United StatesEconomists from the United StatesUnited States Secretaries of AgricultureUnited States Secretaries of Commerce
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Dorothy Ray Healey California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1990)
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Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American economist and politician. He was the thirty-third vice president of the United States (1941–45), the eleventh secretary of agriculture (1933–40), and the tenth secretary of commerce (1945–46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.
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