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The following is a "closing segment" for the show which aired Monday, January 3, 2005 at 11:00 AM EST.
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Monday, January 3, 2005 at 11:00 AM EST
Remembering Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
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Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress and the first African-American to make a serious run for the U.S. Presidency, died over the weekend in Florida. She was 80 years old.

Chisholm was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Brooklyn in 1968. She went on to serve 7 terms. A tireless champion for the rights of women and minorities, she once said, “My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons of political expediency.”

In this commemorative segment, hear an excerpt of the January 1972 speech in which Shirley Chisholm announced her run for the U.S. Presidency.

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