Figures like Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisholm, and Barbara Jordan forged a tradition of Black women in politics. Here's how they led to Sen. Harris' rise to running mate.
, an effort to register Black voters around the South. But, less than a year after the 1963 March on Washington, Hamer’s organizing effectively reset the American political map.
Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-NY, announces her run for president at the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1972.The Voting Rights Act of 1964 not only secured increased access to the ballot box but created new districts where Black candidates were more likely to be elected. By 1968, Lynch said, Shirley Chisholm, a Brooklyn preschool teacher, had recognized what still seems to baffle many political professionals today.
"I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud,” Chisholm said. “I am not the candidate of the women's movement ... although I am a woman and equally proud of that. I am the candidate of the people and my presence before you symbolizes a new era in American political history."Years after Chisholm retired from office, other political events also boosted the number of Black women in public office at every level of government, said Harris, the professor.
Karen Bass, now a California congresswoman, began her political career by organizing a community response to the crack epidemic in the 1980s. Kamala Harris graduated from law school in 1989 and became a prosecutor the following year in a county that included Oakland, which was“Black women now have a lineage and a political genealogy that may have escaped some people’s notice,” Harris said.
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