#The Chisholms

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“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” - Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to run for president, and the second woman to run for president after Margaret Chase Smith

Learn more: https://www.bringyourownchair.org/about-shirley-chisholm/

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Ross Chisholm (British, b. 1977)

Cubic Excavation, 2012

Oil on canvas

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Shirley Chisholm by Erin K. Robinson

“You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”

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President Gerald R. Ford Signing the Proclamation on Women's Equality Day 1974 in the Cabinet Room

Collection GRF-WHPO: White House Photographic Office Collection (Ford Administration)Series: Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs

This photograph depicts President Gerald R. Ford seated at the Cabinet Room table signing a proclamation on Women's Equality Day 1974. Standing behind him are Representatives Yvonne Brathwait Burke (D-California), Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Elizabeth Holtzman (D-New York), Marjorie S. Holt (R-Maryland), Leonor K. Sullivan (D-Missouri), Cardiss Collins (D -Illinois), Corinne C. Boggs (D-Louisiana), Margaret M. Heckler (R-Massachusetts), Bella S. Abzug (D-New York), and Shirley Chisholm (D-New York).

The representatives wear the colorful prints of the 1973’s.  Bella Abzug wears her characteristic wide brimmed hat.

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Spice Girls, 98’

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My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.

 - Shirley Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005)

She was a politician, educator, and author. She was the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first major-party Black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

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Tavares Strachan (Bahamian, b. 1979)

The First Supper (Galaxy Black), 2023. bronze, black patina and gold leaf

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Angela Bassett and Regina King

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Today In History

Shirley Chisholm became the first Barbadian African American congresswoman in 1968. Chisholm represented New York’s 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.

In 1972, she became the first major-party Barbadian African American candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency, and announced her historic campaign for President at Brooklyn’s Concord Baptist Church on this date January 25, 1972.

“You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” - Shirley Chisholm

“Make you co-op-er-ate with the rhythm, that is what I give em, Reagan is the Prez but I voted for Shirley Chisholm.” - Biz Markie

CARTER™️ Magazine

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Up, up, and away

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"Vice President Kamala Harris made history as the first Black woman and the first person of South Asian descent in the United States to be nominated to lead a major party’s presidential ticket.

We speak with historian Barbara Ransby about two Black women pioneers who helped pave the way for her historic nomination: former Congressmember Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress who sought the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972, and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who led the fight to desegregate the party’s Southern delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention."

Watch the video and read the transcript here: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/23/hamer_chisholm_harris

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double trouble 😈

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Place in the Sun by Chelsea Wolfe, live on KEXP