Abzug (D-New York), and Shirley Chisholm (D-New York). Sullivan (D-Missouri), Cardiss Collins (D -Illinois), Corinne C. Standing behind him are Representatives Yvonne Brathwait Burke (D-California), Barbara Jordan (D-Texas), Elizabeth Holtzman (D-New York), Marjorie S. Ford seated at the Cabinet Room table signing a proclamation on Women’s Equality Day 1974. This photograph depicts President Gerald R. She represented New York’s 12th Congressional District from 1968 to 1983. Elected to Congress in 1968, Chisholm became the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Shirley Chisholm is best known for becoming the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1972. The image was photographed by Robert McNeely. Clinton greeting Shirley Chisholm, Ambassador-Designate to Jamaica, in the Oval Office of the White House. This item is a photograph of President William J. However, Clinton was not the first woman to run for President of the United States. Today’s post was written by Tiffany Walker, Archivist in the Textual Processing Branch at the National Archives in College Park, MarylandĮarlier this month, Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic Presidential nomination, thus becoming the first woman in United States history to lead the ticket of a major political party.
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