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Rutgers Anthropologist Lionel Tiger thinks there is going to be a general revolt by women, which will involve such deep-rooted human conditions, biological as well as economic, that it will make the black problem look comparatively easy to solve. Brooklyn's Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman ever elected to Congress, says on the basis of eight months of travel in the U.S. that the revolt has already begun. She herself, she feels, has been more discriminated against as a woman than as a Negro...
Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
JAMES FARMER bills himself as "the first black man in history to lose to a black woman for Congress." The man who founded CORE 26 years ago is more than that. His biography would practically write the story of the civil rights movement. His loss to Mrs. Shirley Chisholm in New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant district came at the will of the Democratic machine which has a stranglehold on the ghetto. The election does not detract from his prestige and left no personal bitterness--only a few campaign anecdotes and a contempt for machine politics...
There is no need to wait for new Government reports or the weighty deliberations of a presidential commission. Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, the Brooklyn Representative who this month became the first black woman to sit in Congress, sums up the Negro's status very succinctly: "The black people are no longer interested in a lot of conferences and meetings, or surveys and graphs and study commissions. We've been analyzed and graphed and surveyed for too long. We need action now. We want to give white America the chance to show that there is such a thing as equality...
There will be no lack of interesting new faces in the House. One will be that of Democrat Shirley Chisholm, 43, who won in a newly created Brooklyn district. Mrs. Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House...