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Shirley Chisholm Delivers Speech on House Floor Advocating Equal Rights Amendment 51 Years Ago
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2:42Now PlayingOn this day in Black history, Shirley Chisholm stood before the U.S. House of Representatives in 1970, and delivered a passionate speech urging lawmakers to support the Equal Rights Amendment.
She began her now-famous speech, “Mr. Speaker, House Joint Resolution 264, before us today, which provides for equality under the law for both men and women, represents one of the most clear-cut opportunities we are likely to have to declare our faith in the principles that shaped our Constitution.”
Even though Chisholm’s amendment didn’t become part of the constitution, it was indicative of what she fought for in her political career. Two years prior, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress, the first Black woman ever to run for president of the United States in 1972 and one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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