![]() “Her slogan was 'unbought and unbossed.' She was really unbossed.” “She was unafraid of anybody,” says Gottlieb. Robert Gottlieb was first an intern in Chisholm’s congressional office and later hired as the student coordinator for her presidential campaign, which would come to rely heavily on the support of college students. Already the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968, Chisholm made her ambitious attempt to win the White House decades before her country was ready for her, garnering just 152 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention. ![]() I am not the candidate of the woman's movement of this country, although I am a woman and I am equally proud of that.”īefore Carol Moseley Braun, before Barack Obama, before Hillary Clinton, Shirley Chisholm was both the first woman and the first African American to run for the nomination of a major party for president of the United States. “I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. It was 1972, and Shirley Chisholm was announcing her historic run for the White House, challenging fellow Democrats George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, Henry M. Her head was barely visible above the forest of microphones. ![]() A Black woman's bespectacled face appeared in front of a podium. ![]()
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