At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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Shirley Chisholm
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About Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita Chisholm 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 in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn 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 presidential nomination. Throughout her career, s…
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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.