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...while the men debated and drew up memorandums about which course to follow, their indecision created a vacuum. None of their reckoning took into account New York Representative Shirley Chisholm. Chisholm, 47, the first black woman ever elected to Congress, announced in September that she would enter at least four primaries in quest of the Democratic nomination. She began her campaign on a characteristically scrappy note: "Other kinds of people can steer the ship of state besides white men. Regardless of the outcome, they will have to remember that a little 100-Ib. woman shook things...
Most shaken were her black political colleagues; those 100 Ibs. now stood between them and a unified strategy for '72. Although Bond's favorite-son tactics were still workable with Chisholm in the race, supporters of the Stokes plan for a national black candidate now found themselves with a candidate not of their choosing. Said one black Congressman: "She's a disruptive woman. What business did she have to do that...
Below Expectations. There was more than pique in the reaction to Chisholm's sudden decision to jump into the campaign. She could indeed divide the black vote, particularly if the national black convention next spring nominates someone else. One of the primaries she plans to enter is California's. Her presence on that ballot could seriously undermine the growing power of California's black legislators and local officeholders. The winner of the California primary gets all 271 of the state's delegate votes. If Chisholm is beaten, blacks could lose much of their influence...
...came in Washington, D.C., last week. The Rev. Walter Fauntroy. Washington's nonvoting delegate to Congress, announced that he would run as a favorite son in the District of Columbia primary-with an unstated agreement that the bulk of Washington's 15 delegate votes would go to Chisholm...
...Defense Department "one must necessarily plow through layers of bureaucracy, but even when that was done, too often bigotry and basic racism thwarted our attempts to help those who are oppressed." Render complained that at the Pentagon he was "treated like a 21-star general." At one point, Mrs. Chisholm was so moved by the angry testimony of one black ex-G.I. that she averted her eyes from the witness and wept...