Brooklyn NY – Celebrating Shirley Chisholm at 100 Years
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As stated by League of Women Voters NYC Board Member Karen Wharton, “Shirley Chisholm’s activism began, in part, at the LWVNYC, and her fearless leadership and advancement of democracy continue to inspire. That she was an African American woman of Caribbean heritage from Brooklyn blazing a political trail even before the Voting Rights Act of 1965 makes her a shero to me.”
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