Shirley Chisholm, was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, N.Y. In 1968 she became the first black woman ever to be elected to Congress and the first black person to run for the presidential nomination of a major political party, paving the way for Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to run in 1976.
Chisholm won more than 430,000 votes in fourteen states and 28 delegates at the Democratic Convention in Miami. As a reporter I was with her when black men excoriated for making the run and then many white women deserted her when she did; but she was a tough tireless fighter.
In my book she tells how the double lash of racism and sexism affected her and how she managed to let neither break her. She authored two books, Unbought and Unbossed and The Good Fight. You will be surprised at what religion she claims gave her the most strength and why she doesn’t want to be remembered as the first black to make a bid for the presidency. Rep. Chisholm, a New York Democrat who served in Congress for 15 years, died in 2005.
You can see our full length interview from August 26th, 2987 in the book below!
The first black woman elected to Congress and the first black person to seek presidential nomination from a major political party, Shirley Chisholm spent 26 years in politics.
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Bishop Alfred A. Owens, Jr: has risen from a storefront preacher to a world stage of evangelism. He struggles through life without the love of a father; yet he has become a spiritual father to thousands.
With the same exuberance in which he once preached to seven people, his messages of hope now reach millions. While other churches flee the ghetto for Doing Good in the Hood the affluent suburbs, he proudly affirms his congregation “as the church in the hood that will do you good.”
He extols his congregants in a mission to “rise up and build.” As he continues to plant churches worldwide, he still walks humbly, loves deeply and has surrendered all to the Gospel. Bishop Alfred Owens has combined spiritual fervor and seminary training to build one of the nation’s most effective Pentecostal institutions.
