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RIP Shirley Chisholm
Jan. 3rd, 2005 08:14 am
The certainly do come in threes don't they? (At least because I refuse to count the homophobe Reggie White)
I still remember how everyone including my teacher looked at me like my head was spinning when I did my 9th grade US History biography project on Shirley Chisolm. What, no dead white man?
Chisholm, 'Unbossed' Pioneer in Congress, Dies
By JAMES BARRON, The New York Times, January 3, 2005
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, died on Saturday night at her home in Ormond Beach, Fla. She was 80. She had suffered several strokes recently, according to a former staff member, William Howard.
Mrs. Chisholm was an outspoken, steely educator-turned-politician who shattered racial and gender barriers as she became a national symbol of liberal politics in the 1960's and 1970's. Over the years, she also had a way of making statements that angered the establishment, as in 1974, when she asserted that "there is an undercurrent of resistance" to integration "among many blacks in areas of concentrated poverty and discrimination" - including in her own district in Brooklyn.
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I still remember how everyone including my teacher looked at me like my head was spinning when I did my 9th grade US History biography project on Shirley Chisolm. What, no dead white man?
Chisholm, 'Unbossed' Pioneer in Congress, Dies
By JAMES BARRON, The New York Times, January 3, 2005
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, died on Saturday night at her home in Ormond Beach, Fla. She was 80. She had suffered several strokes recently, according to a former staff member, William Howard.
Mrs. Chisholm was an outspoken, steely educator-turned-politician who shattered racial and gender barriers as she became a national symbol of liberal politics in the 1960's and 1970's. Over the years, she also had a way of making statements that angered the establishment, as in 1974, when she asserted that "there is an undercurrent of resistance" to integration "among many blacks in areas of concentrated poverty and discrimination" - including in her own district in Brooklyn.
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