Unbought and unbossed /
Shirley Chisholm
- Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1970
- 177 p.
pt. 1. Growing up. Early years in Barbados -- Back to Brooklyn -- College years -- Starting in politics -- pt. 2. Getting there. Teaching, marriage, and the political arena -- In the state assembly -- Running for congress -- Breaking the rules -- pt. 3. Speaking out. The speech against the war -- How I view congress -- Facing the abortion question -- The Lindsay campaign and coalition politics -- Black politicians and the black minority -- pt. 4. Looking ahead. A government that cannot hear the people -- Women and their liberation -- Youth and America's future.
In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first black to be elected to the Congress of the United States. She won this unique designation the hard way - against the odds of her race and sex, and against all the ground rules of the political game.
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Chisholm, Shirley 1924-2005
Politics and government --United States--1969-1974