Although he found some success garnering student support for Chisholm, there were unexpected obstacles. 25, 1972, Gottlieb assumed the role of national student coordinator for the campaign. Once Chisholm formally announced her candidacy on Jan. “She was beholden to no one.” - Robert Gottlieb Her bravery is doing what she said what she was going to do.” “People were upset that she dared run, when she wasn’t going to win. She didn’t ask for permission, she just did it,” said Shola Lynch, a filmmaker who made the 2005 documentary CHISHOLM ’72: Unbought & Unbossed. Her involvement in politics was her asserting herself. “That slogan was who she was, she lived it. But through it all, she was her own woman, unbought and unbossed, which is why the phrase became her 1972 presidential campaign slogan. She had to deal with disdain from black male political leaders. Chisholm encountered racism, misogyny, and death threats throughout her political career. Black women have been putting in work as candidates, and at the ballot box since the days of the civil rights movement, and one of the toughest was Shirley Anita Chisholm. That is the percentage of black women who voted for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to be the first woman to become president of the United States. If you want to put it in numerical terms, try out this number: Ninety-four percent.
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