CHISHOLM SHIRLEY Bring US Together Vote Chisholm 1972 Unboug

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CHISHOLM, SHIRLEY. Bring U.S. Together. Vote Chisholm 1972, Unbought and Unbossed. Photographic poster, 14-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches, printed in black and red on stiff white cardstock. New York, 1972

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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005), politician, educator, and author, represented New York City's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress and on January 25, 1972 became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination (US Senator Margaret Chase Smith had previously run for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination).She received 152 first-ballot votes at the 1972 Democratic National Convention.