Shirley Chisholm speaking at Bethel AME Church in Mobile, Alabama, during her presidential campaign.
Gary Cooper is seated behind her on the right. 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 o...
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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/103785 |
