A Path Where There Was None
In November 1968, Shirley Chisholm stood before supporters in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, having just won election to the United States Congress — the first Black...
This is a contemporary on courage and breaking barriers, drawing on Isaiah 43:19.
In November 1968, Shirley Chisholm stood before supporters in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, having just won election to the United States Congress — the first Black woman ever to do so. She had defeated James Farmer, the nationally known civil rights leader and co-founder of CORE, to claim New York's 12th Congressional District seat. But the road to that podium had no map.…
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