These black women at a point wanted to become U.S. president

Shirley Chisholm

As widely known, in January of 1972, Representative Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) announced a run for the White House becoming the first woman and first African American to run for a major political party’s presidential ticket.

In her announcement, she said: “I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I am not the candidate of the women’s movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I’m equally proud of that. I am not the candidate or any political bosses or fat cats or special interests. I am the candidate of the people of America.”

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With slogan “unbought and unbossed”, she didn’t win the nomination so she went on to serve in Congress for many years before she passed away in 2005.