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"Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during seven terms in the House, died Saturday near Daytona Beach, friends said....
...She ran for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1972. When rival candidate and ideological opposite George Wallace was shot, she visited him in the hospital — an act that appalled her followers...
...And when she needed support to extend the minimum wage to domestic workers two years later, it was Wallace who got her the votes from Southern members of Congress. "
Quite a remarkable person on many levels.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050103/ap_on_re_us/obit_chisholm
...She ran for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1972. When rival candidate and ideological opposite George Wallace was shot, she visited him in the hospital — an act that appalled her followers...
...And when she needed support to extend the minimum wage to domestic workers two years later, it was Wallace who got her the votes from Southern members of Congress. "
Quite a remarkable person on many levels.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050103/ap_on_re_us/obit_chisholm
