May 15, 2025 - Sale 2704

Sale 2704 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 138
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
Jenness, Linda (b. 1941)
A Small Collection of Political Pamphlets & Buttons.

Including: a flyer for a speaking engagement; a Socialist Workers Campaign Committe pamphlet that includes short pieces on issues relevant to the Socialist party, along with a form for ordering posters and buttons promoting core issues; another Socialist Workers pamphlet entitled Out Now, calling for an end to the war in Vietnam; Women & the Cuban Revolution, with speeches by Fidel Castro and articles by Linda Jenness, New York: Pathfinder Press, 1971; [and] 12 political buttons from the early 1970s, supporting the Jenness & Pulley presidential ticket and other Socialist Workers Party issues.

Jenness was the Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States in 1972. She and her vice-presidential nominee, Andrew Pulley, finished fourth in the general election with 83,380 votes. At the age of 31 in 1972, Jenness was not old enough to run, but the SWP noetheless made it onto the ballot in 25 states.