Shirley Chisholm speaking at a press conference at the University of South Alabama in Mobile during her presidential campaign.
Fliers on the wall behind her advertise the event ("Accent on Black"). 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 nominati...
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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/103793 |