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...Shirley Chisholm, 45, now the only black Congresswoman and a Democratic candidate for re-election in New York City, is a maverick who deserted her party's candidate in order to support John Lindsay and could have written the book on Women's Liberation. Tough, honest and a veteran of years of political in-fighting in New York City, she believes that discrimination against women is so severe that "we have not even reached the level of tokenism...
...well as party loyalties. Other than Bella Abzug, who, one of her supporters warned, "will come to Washington and turn this town upside down," they fit most easily into the traditional patterns: liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat. But that comforting conformity to the System will be reversed, insists Shirley Chisholm. A woman President some day? "Of course," she snaps. "You can't stop...
Representative Shirley Chisholm sent her own letter to Humphrey asking for the doctor's resignation. Journalist Gloria Steinem echoed the demand with a petition. Even Dr. Herman's wife got in on the act: when asked about his statements, she replied, "If he really said that, I would disagree with...
Item. Led by U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm ("God help the Democratic Party"), embittered black and Puerto Rican committee members staged a walkout, when they feared that they were losing their fight for black representation on the ticket...
...secure their full legal benefits without bowing to such indignities as midnight raids designed to uncover males in a household. A mother of six, she was born in a shack near Little Rock and now works out of Los Angeles. Such determined black women as Brooklyn's Mrs. Shirley Chisholm are proving effective in politics. Formerly a consultant on child welfare for New York City, she successfully ran for the state assembly. Then she bucked the Democratic organization to become the first black woman elected to Congress...