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...unhappy facts surfaced last week during ad hoc hearings chaired by Representatives Shirley Chisholm of New York and Ron Dellums of California. A succession of witnesses told the committee that racism is so pervasive both in the U.S. and overseas as to make the armed services virtually intolerable for thousands of black Americans...
Thaddeus Garrett Jr., a member of Mrs. Chisholm's staff, toured overseas bases for six weeks last summer. He quoted one black serviceman as saying that blacks there "are already talking in terms of revolution, and that some type of violence is inevitable. They just do not care anymore." Blacks make up 12% of the G.I.s in Germany, and racial tensions there run high. Wallace Terry III, a former TIME correspondent in Viet Nam and author of a forthcoming book, The Bloods: The Black Soldier from Viet Nam to America, has made the oft-repeated-and oft-denied-charge...
While talking to black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm about her candidacy for the White House, New York Representative Edward I. Koch put his tongue firmly in his cheek and asked her if she would consider him as a running mate. "No, Ed," muskied Mrs. Chisholm. "I don't think the country is ready for a Jewish Vice President...
...women and minorities ever got together on issues and on their own tragic under-representation in our political system, this country would never be the same," said Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.), an organizer, of the national caucus...
...reformers offset Mrs. Harris' two most obvious advantages by enlisting black Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to nominate Hughes. Labor countered with what Hughes decried as "savage tactics." Some state committeemen were warned that unless they voted for Mrs. Harris, they could forget about A.F.L.-C.I.O. money for next year's congressional campaigns. The most powerful persuader, though, was Old Pro O'Brien. Rumors floated about that O'Brien would resign if Mrs. Harris was not elected. He personally swung at least ten votes only hours before the election...