Shirley Chisholm at the University of South Alabama in Mobile for a press conference during her presidential campaign.
She is speaking to Mayor A. J. Cooper of Prichard. The two men standing behind her are wearing pins that read, " Shirley Chisholm for President." Chisholm, a Democrat from New York, was the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (1969 to 1983), and she w...
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| Summary: | She is speaking to Mayor A. J. Cooper of Prichard. The two men standing behind her are wearing pins that read, " Shirley Chisholm for President." Chisholm, a Democrat from New York, was the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (1969 to 1983), and she was both the first woman and the first African American to seek the nomination as the presidential candidate of a major political party. |
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