Talk:Shirley Chisholm

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Citation

Why is this page protected? Here's a link for the External Links. It's for a PBS/P.O.V documentary on Shirley Chisholm's 1972 run for president. http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2005/chisholm/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.167.78.52 (talk • contribs) 07:11, March 8, 2007 (UTC)

Presidential bid

Why isn't there anything about her presidential bid? I don't know very much about her, and came to this page to find out more. I expected to see something about that. - Coralys 04:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

big same 2600:6C40:5400:78E:18CF:982E:424D:B6B (talk) 23:29, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Delegate Votes

Anyone know if she received 152 or 162 delegate votes? The article says both. (Also, does anyone know how many delegate votes are possible? It might be nice to be able to say "152 (or 162) out of _____ available delegate votes."--TheOtherBob 21:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to second this. As a non-American, 162 delegate votes doesn't mean much to me. Of course, I could go and look up other articles to find out, but I think it would improve the article if it explained whether this was a near miss, or if she was a long way behind. TheAstonishingBadger (talk) 09:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

It looks like she won 28 delegates during the primary process, then Hubert Humphrey released his black delegates to her at the 1972 convention (he had 93 black delegates and 97 black alternates) as some kind of anti-McGovern maneuver and as a gesture towards black leaders. She ended up with 152 delegates. I haven't found how that added up and don't feel likely to spend more time chasing it down, but it would be good if someone interested could research this more carefully. The article previously repeated the version given in various later popular press pieces that seem to have gotten the story oversimplified or wrong. 75.62.6.99 (talk) 09:32, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I know that in the 2008 election, 2000 or so delegates were up for grabs. 68.43.91.73 (talk) 15:38, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

As daughter of a Caribbean immigrant

Was she the first Congress-person to be elected that was also the child of a Caribbean immigrant --or that was the child of an Anglophone Caribbean immigrant (as opposed to a Spanish-Caribbean immigrant)?Dogru144 01:48, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

This article refers to Chisholm as an African American. Her parents were West Indian immigrants. Not all American blacks are of African origin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zilpha99 (talk • contribs) 00:20, July 12, 2007 (UTC)

Guess where black "West Indians" came from ? :) - Darwinek 09:52, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

more pictures

hi my name is [elided] and me personaly i think there should be tons of pictures [of the subject] on this page

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Earlier candidates

I think this page might need to be corrected. Wikipedia states that there were several earlier female Democrat candidates for presidential nomination (starting in 1920 with Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart, and in 1964 Fay T. Carpenter Swain): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_United_States_presidential_and_vice-presidential_candidates Zonkerette (talk) 11:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Alleged "emasculating matriarch" headlines

The 1972 presidential campaign section includes this:

Many headlines constructed Chisholm as an emasculating matriarch with headlines such as the Boston Globe’s “Rep. Shirley Chisholm outflanks her black political brothers”.

I think this should be removed. Nothing is cited to support the characterization that this headline portrays her as an "emasculating matriarch". The source just shows that the headline existed

Does anyone disagree? -- Pemilligan (talk) 05:24, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Done. -- Pemilligan (talk) 04:47, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. That was added by a one-and-done editor a couple of years ago and the particular conclusion behind it is not supported by the Barbara Winslow biography or other accounts I've seen. Wasted Time R (talk) 11:03, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

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PLATFORM:

Why is literally nothing on this page about the material policies she supported in any of her campaigns? Like what did she proscribe for health care, foreign policy, economic regulation etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.5.121.79 (talk) 12:22, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

If you have sources that cover those topics, please add them to the article to improve it. Thanks! JesseRafe (talk) 14:20, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

First black candidate?

I think there needs to be additional language to distinguish her from Frederick Douglass's candidacy at the 1888 Republican National Convention. Goustien (talk) 02:36, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

Evaluation and Possible Additions

The article's content is relevant to the topic, but I would like to take a deeper dive into some specific aspects of Shirley Chisholm's life and make sure that the underdeveloped sections become more developed. I would also like to investigate her role in the fight for the vote for women and potentially add it to this page. Additionally, I would like to take a look and see if each claim is reliably backed up by a source and cited properly. KaiAbiola (talk) 05:51, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

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