Word: chisholm
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...could be a close race; polls show Wallace, Sanford and Edmund Muskie far ahead of Shirley Chisholm and Henry Jackson who, like Muskie, is not campaigning in the state though he is on the ballot. On May 6 North Carolina voters will indicate whether, as one national Democratic leader contends, many Southerners "are sick of having the rest of the country think the South is all like George Wallace...
...Washington Post quoted Chisholm as saying, "The Black Panthers, interviewing all of the other candidates, probably came to the conclusion that in terms of their own aspirations, I would be the best candidate," She added that she will meet soon with Seale and Newton to plan programs for poor people...
...Panther statement said that the entire Party membership would actively work for Chisholm's election, and noted that control of the economic, political and social institutions of this society by the people was their basic goal...
...endorsing Chisholm--whose slogan is "Unbought and Unbossed"--the statement said, "Shirley Chisholm has stood up in the face to racism, a lone Black woman, denouncing the sufferings of Black and poor people at every opportunity. (She) is the best social critic of America's injustices to run for presidential office...
...statement asked that those people wishing to work for Chisholm contact her campaign headquarters or any Black Panther Party Chapter