http://blog-aauw.org/2008/02/21/vote-and-honor-black-history/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog-aauw.org/2008/02/21/vote-and-honor-black-history/#comment-65 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:14:28 +0000 http://blog-aauw.org/?p=53#comment-65 While this may be the first election where either a woman or an African-American will be on the ballot for president, Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to seek a major party’s presidential nomination in 1972. Thanks for the reminder about what a trailblazer she was (for Hillary, Barack and all of us)! A documentary film about her landmark campaign, “Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed,” was made just a few years back. Information about the film is available on the PBS P.O.V. website at http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/chisholm/index.html. Specifically interesting is the 1973 Ms. Magazine cover article by Gloria Steinem about her campaign.

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