- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Shirley Chisholm at Emmaus House
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 1972-02-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Political campaigns--1970-1980
Presidential candidates--United States
Emmaus House (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Democratic presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm at a campaign event at Emmaus House in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) was the first African American woman elected to Congress; she represented New York's 12th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first African American to run for President as a major-party candidate and was the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/byd/id/3141
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright is held by Boyd Lewis. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivsCC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis photographs
MSS 1118, Southwind recordings, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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