Shirley Chisholm speaking at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, during her presidential campaign.
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Councilman Arthur Shores, Louphenia Thomas, and Mayor David Vann are seated behind her. Chisholm, a Democrat from New York, was the first African American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives (1969 to 1983), and she was both the first woman and the first African American to seek the nomination as the presidential candidate of a major political party. In 1977, Thomas became the first African American woman to serve in the Alabama legislature.
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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AlabamaKeywords
- African Americans
- Alabama
- Birmingham
- Birmingham (Ala.)
- Chisholm, Shirley, 1924 2005
- Churches
- Government
- Jefferson County (Ala.)
- Legislators
- Mayors
- Municipal Officials
- Political Activity
- Political Campaigns
- Politics & Government
- Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904 1996
- Thomas, Louphenia, 1915 2001
- United States
- Vann, David, 1928 2000
- Women