Background
Phillips, Channing Emery was born on March 23, 1928 in Brooklyn. Son of Porter W. and Dorothy A. (Fletcher) Phillips.
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Phillips, Channing Emery was born on March 23, 1928 in Brooklyn. Son of Porter W. and Dorothy A. (Fletcher) Phillips.
Student, University Utah, 1945-1946; Bachelor of Arts, Virginia Union U., 1950; Master of Divinity, Colgate Rochester Division School, 1953; postgraduate, Drew U., 1953-1956.
In 1968 he headed Robert F. Kennedy"s presidential campaign in District of Columbia He led the delegation from the District of Columbia to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Following Senator Kennedy"s death, the delegation voted to nominate Review Phillips as a favorite son instead.
He received 68 votes (behind Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern).
By some accounts, this makes Review Phillips the first black person ever so nominated at a major party convention.
He was without question the first African-American to receive votes for the presidential nomination at a Democratic National Convention. Frederick Douglass received votes for president at the 1888 Republican National Convention, but it does not appear from the official record that his name was actually put into nomination.
Phillips said that his candidacy was meant to show that "the Negro vote must not be taken for granted." At the time of his candidacy, Phillips was a president of the Housing Development Corporation, a Government-backed housing venture in the federal capital.
In 1971 he ran to become the first congressional delegate to the United States House of Representatives from District of Columbia, but lost the Democratic primary to Walter East. Fauntroy. An advocate of full home-rule status for District of Columbia, Phillips later moved back to New York City, where he died at the age of 59.
Born in Brooklyn to a Baptist minister, he was a founding member of Coalition of Conscience, a conglomeration of local organizations working to alleviate social problems in Washington, District of Columbia Members of the District"s Delegation were originally pledged to Robert F. Kennedy.
Married Jane Celeste Nabors, December 22, 1956. Children: Channing Durward, Sheilah Nahketah, Tracy Jane, Jill Celeste, John Emery.
