Shirley Chisholm preparing to speak at Bethel AME Church in Mobile, Alabama, during her presidential campaign.
Gary Cooper is helping her adjust the microphone. 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 candidat...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/103691 |