Editor’s Note: The following is a speech Shirley Chisholm made on behalf of equal rights. She did not want to be remembered as the first Black female congresswoman, or the first serious female presidential candidate, just simply as “a woman who fought for change in the 20th century.” Mr. Speaker, when a young woman graduates […]

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