Trailblazing Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm takes her campaign for President to the Flushing, NY campus of Queens College on April 13, 1972 (audio clip.) From Wikipedia: "Shirley Anita Chisholm (November 30, 1924 - January 1, 2005) 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 on Bedford-Stuyvesant, 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 nomination." (File photo.)
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