(A) it was a Black man running for office
(B) a woman was running for office
(C) ** there was a Black man and woman running for office
(D) None of the above
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Concept note-1: -She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party.
Concept note-2: -In the 1984 presidential election and 1988 presidential election, Jesse Jackson was the first major-party black candidate to run nationwide primary campaigns and to win individual states’ primaries or caucuses. He competed as a Democrat.
Concept note-3: -After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited states from denying a male citizen the right to vote based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude.”