“Equal Rights For Women”

Famous Speech Series Featuring Shirley Chisholm

Photo by Library of Congress at Unsplash

In 1968, Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968. In historical terms, that was just a minute ago, I can’t start thinking about that, or I’ll go down a rabbit hole about why it took so long to elect a Black Congresswoman; it took until 1992 to get a Black Senator; Carol Moseley Braun, who…