Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm addressed the 1984 Democratic National Convention with this seconding speech for the nomination of Jesse Jackson for President of the United States. Jackson came in ...

You don’t, however, detect any of it in the carefully detailed performance of Regina King as Shirley Chisholm, the first Black female member of the U.S. Congress, who campaigned for the ...

According to the New York Times, Chisholm said in her victory speech, “Just wait, there may be some fireworks.” In her first floor speech, she spoke out against the Vietnam War.

American politician, educator, and author Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005), Member of the US House of Representatives from New York’s 12th district, cheered by the crowd as she gives a speech at ...

After Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 presidential election, Harris gave a nod in her victory speech to the women like Chisholm "who fought and sacrificed so much for equality and liberty ...

Shirley Chisholm had a spirit unlike any other. She was a woman of many firsts: the first Black woman to be elected into Congress and the first Black woman to run for president. Nicknamed ...

Shirley Chisholm had a spirit unlike any other. She was a woman of many firsts: the first Black woman to be elected into Congress and the first Black woman to run for president. Nicknamed ...