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Trailblazing Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm takes her campaign for President to the Flushing, NY campus of Queens College on April 13, 1972 (audio clip.) From Wikipedia: "Shirley Anita Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination." (File photo.)
Trailblazing Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm takes her campaign for President to the Flushing, NY campus of Queens College on April 13, 1972 (audio clip.) From Wikipedia: "Shirley Anita Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination." (File photo.)
