Shirley Chisholm in her own words : speeches and writings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Fraser, Zinga A., 1976- (Editor, Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The need for a new thrust in education today
  • The daycare dilemma
  • Closing remarks, "Black Studies and Women's Studies : an overdue partnership"
  • The Black struggle for excellence in education
  • People and peace, not profits and war
  • The Black as a colonized man
  • On captive nations week
  • Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 1 : foreign aid
  • Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 2 : the Middle East crisis
  • Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 3 : equality of commitment : Africa
  • The Attica Prison uprising : a national tragedy and disgrace
  • Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 5 : justice in America
  • Racism and polarization
  • On busing desegregation
  • Presidential Campaign Position Paper No. 8 : housing
  • The White press : sexist and racist
  • U.S. policy and Black refugees
  • A government that cannot hear the people
  • Presidential campaign announcement
  • The politics of coalition
  • Politics is every Black woman's business
  • Equal rights for women
  • Economic justice for women
  • I'd rather be Black than female
  • Facing the abortion question
  • Race, revolution, and women
  • The Black woman in contemporary America
  • Address to the Conference of Black and Latin Women in Art & Politics
  • The viability of Black women in politics
  • Progress through understanding
  • Lowering the voting age to 18
  • Youth and America's future
  • Land of our birth.