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...first black to be considered by a major party or the presidency was the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who received a single, complimentary vote at the 1888 Republican Convention. In 1972, New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm entered the Democratic race and in 14 primaries picked up 28 delegates...
...Paul Barton (unassisted), 5:07; N, Steve Lyons (unassisted), 17:31; N, Ralph Robertson (Norm Lacombe, Ken Chisholm), 3:35; N. Dan Potter (Barton, Lyons), 15:44; S, Rick Bowman (Steve Smith, Steve Rhodes), 15:08; S, Ray Shero (Mark Bonneau, Steve Tute), 15:26; N, Barton (Lyons, Dan Forget...
...Government had been content to use the land, which it had acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, as a resettlement ground for displaced Indians. But after the Civil War, the white settlers began demanding parts of the territory. Cattlemen wanted to drive their herds to market along the Chisholm and Shawnee trails; America's new immigrants wanted land for farms. Ignoring Government restrictions, settlers known as boomers began to squat on lands in the territory...
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York at Spelman College in Atlanta: "I know only too well how that double burden [of being a black and a woman] can clip the wings of a soaring spirit. For far too many females, home is still-as George Bernard Shaw noted-'the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse'; and far too often, the office or factory is no better for those women who work outside the home. To your special burdens of race and gender are also added the serious problems facing our entire nation...
...sponsors of the Roe bill, who include such liberals as Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), as well as conservatives such as Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), share the distrust for academics...