A Look at Shirley Chisholm's 1972 Presidential Run Wally McNamee ... In a fervently antiwar speech before the National Press Club, Chisholm criticized the Nixon Administration for the Vietnam War.

American politician, educator, and author Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005), Member of the US House of Representatives from New ...

If Harris' campaign is the coconut, then Shirley Chisholm is the biggest branch which grows from a tall trunk grown strong from a decades-long sisterhood of activists, intellectuals, organizers ...

According to the National Women's History Museum, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first Black Congresswoman, serving seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, beginning in 1969.

As Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to become the first woman of color to accept the Democratic presidential nomination this week, another trailblazing woman politician, Shirley Chisholm, is ...

Clinton nodded to the trailblazing women who have run for national office, including Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman to run for president and a source of inspiration for Harris’ campaign.

PROSPECT PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- This November 30 will mark what would have been Shirley Chisholm's 100th birthday. Ahead of her birthday, people are remembering and discovering the trailblazing ...

More than 50 years ago, Shirley Chisholm became the first woman of color to be a candidate for a major political party’s nomination for U.S. President. She was a pioneer and a visionary ...

I was wrong, of course. Years passed, then decades. The prospect of the U.S. electing a woman as president felt like an increasingly distant goal, even after — maybe especially after — Hillary ...