Shirley Chisholm with Mayor David Vann and Louphenia Thomas at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, during her presidential campaign.
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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama
Ayres, Jerry
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The image is extremely dark. 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.
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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
- Political Activity
- Political Campaigns
- Politics & Government
- Thomas, Louphenia, 1915 2001
- United States
- Vann, David, 1928 2000
- Women