Shirley Chisholm Lives On

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In the midst of the upheaval of 1968—a tumultuous year marked by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., intense opposition to the Vietnam War, and the election of President Nixon—a black public school teacher from Brooklyn, Shirley Chisholm, offered the nation a way forward. She was the first black woman elected…

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