Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Chisholm, Shirley

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

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