Kathleen Mickells (born 1951) is an American

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worker, coal miner and activist with the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Mickells was born in

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and worked at the Cumberland Mine in Greene County, Pennsylvania before being laid off in 1987. In 1986, she led a delegation of American women coal miners to tour coal fields in the

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. In that same year, Mickells attended the International Miners Organisation meeting also in the United Kingdom. In 1987, she was part of the SWP delegation which attended the 75th anniversary of the founding of the

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, which was held in

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due to the apartheid policies in

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Campaigns

In 1983 Mickells ran for commissioner in

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, and received 7% of the vote. In 1985, she ran a write-in campaign for the

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. In 1988, Mickells ran as the vice presidential candidate alongside James Warren on the SWP ticket. The Warren/Mickells pair received 15,602 votes nationally. In 1991, Mickells ran as the SWP candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, saying she would bring a

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worldview to city politics. She finished in sixth and last place of the declared candidates, with 1,811 votes.

References

1951 births Living people Socialist Workers Party (United States) vice presidential nominees Politicians from Philadelphia Politicians from Washington County, Pennsylvania Politicians from Omaha, Nebraska Women in Pennsylvania politics Women in West Virginia politics Socialist Workers Party (United States) politicians from Pennsylvania 20th-century American women politicians 1988 United States vice-presidential candidates Socialist Workers Party (United States) politicians from Nebraska 21st-century American women 20th-century Pennsylvania politicians {{Pennsylvania-politician-stub