![A young Charlotta wearing a light lacy collar sweater and pearl-like earrings](/sites/default/files/2021-05/Charlotta%20Bass%20640x480_0.png)
Postcard photo of a young Charlotta Bass, ca. 1901-1910. Wikimedia Commons
(1874-1969) Born in Sumter, SC, Charlotta Bass was a newspaper publisher in Los Angeles, California, and the first African-American woman on a Presidential campaign ticket in a United States presidential election.