Sam Seder
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When Congress Passed Universal Childcare Thanks To Shirley Chisholm
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10:07Now PlayingProfessor of History at the University of Kentucky Anastasia Curwood, joins the program to discuss her recent book Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics.
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When she was elected to Congress you know what were some of the things that she was prioritizing and championing in her first two terms before she announced her presidential run in 72? Yeah yeah, she was about halfway through her second term when she announced. And it's interesting when she got to Congress she said well I thought you know as a first-term legislator I'm not going to have that much power. I'm going to try to get three sources as much as possible for my constituents and you know and I'm gonna try to support you know the policies that I think are important. She pretty quickly became known as an outspoken critic of the status quo. And as such she got more and more ambitious. But the other thing was that you know she was really talented as a legislative thinker. She would study. She was a good student. She'd always known she was a teacher. And she was a very good student and she would study the legislation. She had really sharp staffers who you know would go over the substance of the legislation. So she understood it as well as or better than anyone else. And so she had become known as a really valuable asset and the committee she was on. And in 1971 she was on the education and labor that was committee that she had most wanted to be on. There's a whole thing about that she was on a different committee and put up a fight about it. But as a member of that committee, she became very close or had a good relationship with Carl Perkins who was the chair of that committee. Now Carl Perkins is a white guy from Kentucky. Which is where I sit right now Carl Perkins he was a Democrat. He recognized that she was advocating for a lot of the things that poor people in Kentucky needed also. Not only that but that she was such a good student of the legislature that she could figure out all sorts of nuts and bolts in that legislation. And so in 71, she put forward with Bella Abzug. I'm coming back to being a feminist. She was with her colleague from Manhattan who was a famous feminist. They put together legislation to start Universal child care in the United States. it got through both houses of Congress. It got through the conference committee which she chaired. It got to President Nixon's desk and he vetoed it because it was you know too it was Radical social legislation.
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