091623 Way Black History Fact - The First Black Woman in Congress

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Our Way Black History Fact highlights Shirley Anita Chisholm…the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress and the first Black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It'signed for the Way Black History Fact and Today's Way
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talk about the first black woman who actually makes some
real headway and running for president. She was almost assassinated
three times, and you're going to share a story with you.

(00:23):
Shirley Anita Chisholm was born November thirtieth, nineteen twenty four
through January first, two thousand and five. She was an
American politician who in nineteen sixty eight became the first
black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.
Chisholm represented New York's twelfth Congressional District, a district centered
on Bedford Stuiberson, her seven terms from nineteen sixty nine

(00:45):
to nineteen eighty three. In nineteen seventy two, she became
the first black candidate for a major party nomination for
the president of the United States and the first woman
to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and she
was a black woman. Throughout her career, she was known
for taking a resolute stand against economic social and political injustices,
as well as being a strong supporter of black civil

(01:07):
rights and women's rights. By the way, this reading comes
from Wikipedia, It's important to say that born in Brooklyn,
New York, she spent ages five through nine in Barbados,
and she always considered herself a Barbadian American. She excelled
at school and earned her college degree in the United States.
She started working in early childhood education and became involved

(01:31):
in local Democratic Party policies in the nineteen fifties. In
nineteen sixty four, overcoming some resistance because she was a woman,
she was elected to the New York State Assembly. Four
years later, she was elected to Congress, where she led
the expansion of food and nutrition programs for the poor
and rose to party leadership. She retired from Congress in
nineteen eighty three and taught at Mount Holyoke College while

(01:57):
continuing her political organizing. Although not dominated for an ambassadorship
in nineteen ninety three, health issues caused her to withdraw.
She garnered ten percent of the vote at the Democratic
National Convention in nineteen seventy two, and though she failed
to win the nomination, she was forced to survive three
assassination attempts during this presidential run. Some say her bid

(02:21):
laid the groundwork for future presidential bids by women. In
twenty fifteen, Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
So the thing that stood out to me about this
story is that there were three assassination attempts, three attempts

(02:44):
on her life in the seventies, which, to me, the
seventies feels like the modern era, like I can reach
out and touch someone who was born in the seventies
or born in the sixties, you know. And this was
after you know, doctor King was assassinated, you know what

(03:06):
I mean. Like it it's more modern and I feel
I obviously I don't have no proof, but I feel
like these assassination attempts were because she was a black
woman and.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Was I think more importantly, because she was a black
woman that they had to feel had some influence that
had a shot, you know what I mean, that that
could really change people's minds about what was possible, inspire
those who came after her to try the same thing. Right,
if she was not influential and didn't have that kind
of impact, why even why

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, Well, I I'm appreciative of the groundwork that she
like God bless