![]() ![]() Yet her challenge to the status quo and her message about exercising the right to vote struck many as progressive and positive. ![]() Chisholm's bid for an equal place on the presidential dais generated strong, even racist opposition. Shunned by the political establishment and the media, this longtime champion of marginalized Americans asked for support from people of color, women, gays, and young people newly empowered to vote at the age of 18. Recalling a watershed event in US politics, this compelling documentary takes an in-depth look at the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and the first to seek nomination for the highest office in the land.įollowing Chisholm from her own announcement of her candidacy through her historic speech in Miami at the Democratic National Convention, the story is a fight for inclusion. ![]()
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