Shirley Chisholm arriving at Bethel AME Church in Mobile, Alabama, for a speaking engagement during her presidential campaign.
She is speaking with Gary Cooper, and Fred Gray is walking behind them. 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...
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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/103780 |
