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As the primary Black girl in Congress and the primary Black girl to run for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm clearly had no scarcity of imaginative and prescient. Even so, the glass-ceiling-shattering politician—who was born on Nov. 30, 1924—may not have imagined what would come 100 years after her delivery. Her centennial yr has seen the primary girl of colour on the high of a significant party ticket, and Chisholm, who died in 2005, has been the topic of a Netflix sequence and a number of biographies. The New York City Council has declared Nov. 30 as Shirley Chisholm Day, to be celebrated yearly. Even so, her influence has not all the time been acknowledged to the identical extent as that of different Black leaders.
This brief documentary by RetroReport examines Chisholm’s legacy—and the way she has served as an inspiration to many, at the same time as the fact of a lady being elected President stays unrealized within the United States.
