Shirley Chisholm with Mayor David Vann and Louphenia Thomas at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, during her presidential campaign.

The image is extremely dark. 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 politica...

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Main Author: Ayres, Jerry
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/103724