learn about Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's historic 1972 presidential run ⤵️
,” according to her congressional intern Robert Gottlieb, who helped create the campaign poster.
“She was beholden to no one. She truly represented someone unbought and unbossed because of her principles and her fortitude, not because of false bravado and money,” Gottlieb toldin 2017. “She only took orders from the people. She gave a voice to the disenfranchised.” During her announcement speech, Chisholm decried corporate interests, political celebritism, and the Watergate controversy. She intended to lead a new form of politics, one led by the American people. She said, “I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women’s movement in this country, although I am a woman and equally proud of that.... I am the candidate of the people of America.
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