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JHan

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Fri Nov 30, 2018, 12:13 PM Nov 2018

Happy birthday, Shirley Chisholm. You're getting a statue.



New York City has few statues honoring women. That’s about to change.

A statue of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in the House of Representatives, is coming in 2020. It’ll be placed outside the Parkside entrance to Prospect Park.

“We set out to correct a glaring inequity in our public spaces,” New York’s first lady, Chirlane McCray, said in an interview on Thursday.

Ms. McCray credited Ms. Chisholm for inspiring a generation of women to seek public office. “I hope that putting up the statue now will encourage even more,” she said.

“I can’t think about her and what she accomplished before and after her run and not think ‘Oh, maybe I should do that too, you know?’ She really set an example, for all of us.”

Today is Ms. Chisholm’s birthday, and this is the 50th anniversary of her election to Congress, from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

In 1972, she became the first woman to seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, and the first black woman to seek the presidential nomination of either major party. She died in 2005 at 80.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/nyregion/newyorktoday/new-york-news-chisholm-statue.html
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Happy birthday, Shirley Chisholm. You're getting a statue. (Original Post) JHan Nov 2018 OP
I saw the documentary on her shenmue Nov 2018 #1
Well deserved rurallib Nov 2018 #2
She definitely deserves statues everywhere. WhiteTara Nov 2018 #3
Excellent sheshe2 Nov 2018 #4
K&R Tarheel_Dem Nov 2018 #5
K&R brer cat Nov 2018 #6
How I loved these two - Happy Birthday, Shirley! Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm NBachers Dec 2018 #7
My childhood heroine Ellen Forradalom Dec 2018 #8
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