Nicknamed “Fighting Shirley,” Chisholm ... first Black major-party candidate in the 1972 presidential race, and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“Would you accept the VP nomination?” Sadly, members of the Democratic Party immediately picked up on that dismissal, similar to what Shirley Chisholm experienced with the undermining of her ...

“Would you accept the VP nomination?” Sadly, members of the Democratic Party immediately picked up on that dismissal, similar to what Shirley Chisholm experienced with the undermining of her ...

former Congressmember Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress who sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer ...

When Kamala Harris takes the stage on Thursday night, becoming the first woman of color to accept the Democratic Party nomination ... has more in common with Shirley Chisholm.

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A one-woman show coming to West Philadelphia tells the story of a historical figure often left out of history books. In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first ...

NEW YORK-- Shirley Chisholm ... to Congress in 1968 and the first woman to seek a major party nomination for president. Chisholm's life and legacy are commemorated in the "Changing the Face ...

As the first Black woman in Congress and the first Black woman to run for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm clearly had no shortage of vision. Even so, the glass ...

Chisholm was born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November ... and the first time a woman had run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. She was blocked from participating in televised ...

If Harris' campaign is the coconut, then Shirley Chisholm is the biggest ... but she became the first woman in the Democratic Party to have her name placed in nomination. "When I got to the ...

CHICAGO — "We are a party of the future ... subtle nods to the nation's first Black congresswoman, Democratic New York Rep. Shirley Chisholm. Those historical musings followed Harrison and ...

Kamala Harris formally accepted her party’s presidential nomination, as the Democratic convention ... we are going to realize Shirley Chisholm’s dream” when Harris accepts the nomination.