Shirley Chisholm

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  3/14/2023
  

  Anastasia Curwood on Shirley Chisholm's Childhood Heroes

  Born in Barbados, Shirley Chisholm moved to Brooklyn as a child. Her biographer discusses how her childhood heroes shaped her political worldview. 

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• SOURCE: 19th News
  1/12/2023
  

  Anastasia Curwood on New Shirley Chisholm Bio

  By framing Chisholm as a person with a life history, Curwood elevates knowledge of the New York congresswoman from a "first major party candidate" to a political theorist and visionary. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  6/1/2022
  

  Rescuing Shirley Chisholm's Life from Symbolism

  by Anastasia Curwood

  Writing a biography of the Congresswoman and presidential candidate required working through the distinction between Shirley Chisholm the symbol and the much more complex reality of Shirley Chisholm the woman, to see how big trends in Black history unfolded at a human scale.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/14/2020
  

  Shirley Chisholm’s Historic Presidential Run Helped Lead To This Moment

  “She bridged so many different constituencies and she was an excellent model of the power of grassroots campaigns,” Miami University historian Tammy Brown told Vox.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/11/2020
  

  Shirley Chisholm Blazed the Way for Kamala Harris to be Biden’s VP Pick

  “I am not the candidate for Black America, although I am Black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women’s movement of this country, although I am a woman and I’m equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/11/2020
  

  Before Kamala Harris Became Biden’s Running Mate, Shirley Chisholm and other Black women Aimed for the White House

  by Sharon Austin

  Joe Biden has now selected a woman who he believes can not only help him win the election but also to govern if he is elected. It is a watershed moment for African Americans, Asian Americans and women who’ve so long been excluded from so many aspects of politics.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/3/2020
  

  What Shirley Chisholm Can Teach 2020 Candidates as They Exit

  by Anastasia Curwood

  Chisholm wanted to show the power of new voices in the Democratic Party: women, African Americans, the poor and youth, and to challenge the authority of conservative Southern white Democrats at the Democratic National Convention.

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• 10/29/19
  

  Throwing Away the “Electability” Argument

  by Matthew Crawford

  There is no historical basis for the idea that women and minority candidates aren’t electable.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/6/2019
  

  2019 Belongs to Shirley Chisholm

  A feature film. A monument. Tattoos in her honor. People looking for a hero have found one in this one-woman precursor to today’s progressive politics.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12-5-2018
  

  New York City has only a few statues of historic women. This pioneering African American will be the next

  City officials say they will erect a statue of political pioneer Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress.