Word: chisholm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accusing Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson of profligate sexual activity. This had received local newspaper attention during the Florida primary, leading Chapin to laud Segretti for getting $10,000 worth of publicity for $20. Segretti also admitted distributing a phony Humphrey press release falsely claiming that Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, another Democratic candidate, had been in a mental institution...
...Forging the signature of a Eugene McCarthy aide on letters urging McCarthy and Chisholm supporters to switch to Humphrey...
Shirley A. Chisholm, L.H.D., Congresswoman. The champion of all whose rights are threatened by the established prejudices and traditions of the past...
...coolness toward the feminist movement-they believe that they are oppressed not by black men but by white society. As a result, most of them prefer to confine their crusading to such basic questions as employment, housing, education and the psychological effects of discrimination. "To black women," Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm sums up, "picketing a club restricted to men or insisting on the title Ms. are not burning issues...
Still, there were a few serious candidates on the seniors' list (Leonard Bernstein, Julian Bond, Shirley Chisholm, Erik Erikson, Francis Fitzgerald, Margaret Mead). But the Class of 1973, like gleeful high school seniors, went for the funny men and the celebrities; and the makeup of the ballot invited just such a result...