look what he said about shirley chisholm. shirley chisholm had been released from a mental institution a few years ago. and it is known that she rubs feces on the walls of the rooms in her home. i thought that the paper crumbled. bruce: what device did he use to get that information out? rep. chisholm: leaflet. bruce: how do you know it was from him? rep. chisholm: because my friends in california sent me all the leaflets that was put out by him. at that time, he didn't say he did it. as a result of the watergate hearings, it came out that he did it. not only negative and untruthful things said about me. it was also set about the others. the most slimy, sleazy types of remarks. my friends in california alerted me to it. later, he apologized to all of us. bruce: personally? rep. chisholm: not personally but by the media. ,the newspapers picked it up. bruce: do you think those tricks had any effect on your campaign? rep. chisholm: no. not really. bruce: what was jesse jackson doing at the time that you are running? what was his

. >> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. it's not for her congressional campaign. it's actually for something else entirely. >> it's actually for a presidential campaign that she waged in 1972. and she went to the democratic convention and actually rounded up about 10% of the votes. she's the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget and had a very admirable showing. but she had a reputation, a national reputation well before 1972. she's elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn. and she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the republican -- liberal republican ticket was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders. and there's this back and forth between these two, and farmer really runs on the idea that, you know, brooklyn needs a man in congress, and shirley chisholm, boy, she fires back. and her campaign theme is like the one expressed on this poster is unbought and unbossed. i'm fighting

shirley chisholm is first black woman on capitol hill. she becomes an important international figure particularly in the african-american press. right around the time the congressional black caucus is greeted, ebony magazine is able to put a lot of folks on the cover as that is created. an importantomes caucus, and important issues based group, but each of these individual people become important to different communities. yvonne bert is seen here on the one when it twice, says women may become congresswoman. she does not become congresswoman in 1967, but later on she does get elected to congress and shows up on the covers of a lot of magazines as the face of not just black women in congress but of younger women in congress. she is the first member of congress to have a baby while she is serving, and she shows up on and ebony magazine cover holding her baby, something -- the first time there had been such a cover of a lawmaker having a brand-new baby. she becomes a national figure getaways shown by these two buttons. they do not show anyth

shirley chisholm is first black woman on capitol hill." she, like many other members of congress, become important national figures, particularly in the african-american press. for example, right around the time when the congressional black caucus is created, "ebony" magazine is automobile to pble f folks on the cover as that's created. and it really becomes an important caucus, important issues-based group. but each of these individual people become important in different ways to different communities. yvonne berke is here seen on the cover of "jet" twice, once in the 1960s when it says "woman who may become congresswoman." and she does not become congresswoman in 1967. but a little bit later on, she does, is elected to congress, and very much shows up oen the covers of a lot of magazines as a face of not just black women in congress but of women in congress and younger women in congress. she's the first member of congress to have a baby while she's serving. she shows up on an "ebony" magazine cover holding her little baby, something -- p

when you look at 1972, when the first african american woman elected to congress, congresswoman shirley chisholme ran for president. that's how i got involved in politics. congresswoman chisholm, our presidential candidate then, she fought just like senator harris has been fighting to break so many grass ceilings for so many women, so many african american women, so many people of color. i think about the historical context of shirley chisholm passing this baton to kamala harris as our vice president to come. i am so -- it's so important that black women are seen upfront now. we will be seen and tin the cab rooms, seen in the situation rooms, we will be seen through all of our foreign and domestic policy as leaders and as the vice president who will bring so much to the table as it relates to making sure that all americans receive a fair shot at the american dream. and so she is the person who has embraced this country. she loves this country and she is going to fight for racial justice, economic equity, and health, security, and economic security, especially in this moment of this horrific pand

they used a similar font that shirley chisholm had used for her landmark campaign. senator harris entered that crowded, somewhat impressive field of democrats vying for the nomination. as i mentioned, she was one of 27 candidates. but she set herself apart from the rest of the field at least in the early days. she held her official campaign launch in her hometown of oakland, california. more than 20,000 people showed up for her campaign launch in oakland. it was like 22,000 people. look at that. more people turned out to see kamala harris announce her candidacy in oakland than turned out to see barack obama announce his candidacy in 2008. she told that gargantuan crowd, we are at an inflection point in the history of our world. that was january of 2019, and that started the long slog of the very crowded democratic primary. by the end of it, by december, even before the first democratic voters had gone to the polls, the kamala harris campaign was plainly running out of steam. she had taken some long stretches off the campaign trail basically to try to bolster lacklus

we get our first african-american woman, shirley chisholm, in 1969. but more specifically to the voting rights act, which protects voters in districts that -- where they had a hard time registering previously because of local laws and state laws and disenfranchisement, we have the first southern members elections since reconstruction. andrew young from georgia and barbara jordan from texas. as the number of african americans in gres congress incr one thing this allows the core group to do is create an issues caucus. en in 1971, we have the formation of the black caucus, which is roughly a dozen members at that point, but it's able to exercise some power as a voting bloc and as an organization which educates members on issues that are important to the black community nationally. and so the black caucus becomes involved very early on in things like opposing apartheid in south africa, building momentum to pass a federal holiday to commemorate martin luther king's birthday. so it's operating at a legislative level. but inside the institution, too, it's im

and then you think of course of shirley chisholm, 1972 launching her bid for the white house. was dismissed in many ways, obviously didn't win, but the idea behind that candidacy was to expand the american imagination about who could hold power, expand black people's imagination about who could hold power, black men's imagination about who could hold power and certainly just the broader population. and obviously when kamala harris announced her candidacy in january, she also talked about shirley chisholm saying that she was carrying this banner that shirley chisholm unfurled in 1972 almost 50 years ago. so we will see what this process is like. but the history of it, and i also think it should be noted that this is still a risky pick. america is still a country that is marred too often by racism and sexism. black women in particular often ignored, stepped over and stepped on. so data that somehow, a, that this was inevitable and this is a risky bold choice, even in this moment where people are talking about social justice. there's clearly a rising democratic shift in this coun

now we have a vice presidential candidate who, i think, shirley chisholm is just smiling today and has passed the baton to kamala harris. the right wing, they're going to say what they have to say, but let them say what they have to say. we know good and well that we're going to work. we're going to work hard. we've got to win this election and senator harris is going to help win this election and again regain the soul of america. she's going to be an excellent partner on the campaign trail with mr. biden, and she's going to really bring so much to the government in her experience as attorney general for example. the largest state in the country. she knows the system. she knows the criminal justice system. she knows what the system of racism is, and she knows how from the inside what to do do begin do dismantle this. so i'm very proud of her today. i think the entire country is, and to see vice president biden, and i'm so, well, soon to be president biden with vice president harris, to see them together working on an agenda, putting forth what they're going to do for the country and th

just going to redouble our efforts to make sure that this is a ticket when but also remember shirley chisholm the first african-american woman elected congress also the first black woman to run for the presidency, so kamala harris is taking back the time from shirley chisholm and runs for and going to be our vice president is a black women women of color women that our is is hopeful today and is hopeful because we going to have a fine hairs team in the white house if we do our work begin right now. >>congresswoman barbara lee from the east bay, thank you so much for your reaction today is thank you nice being with you. california senator kamala harris is joe biden's vice presidential pick might really seem ironic to a lot of people considering their clash in the early democratic presidential debates. but political alliances are often surprising and the 2 actually likely have much more in common than not put together this closer look at senator harris. >>i stand before you today. to announce my candidacy. >>20,000 people come out to oakland to launch the presidential campaign of kamala harris

remind to shirley chisholm was. guest: she was the first black woman elected to congress from brooklyn new york. -- brooklyn, new york. black, multiethnic -- barbadianrbados became, excuse me, who the first black woman to run under the democratic party president. she did not get far, but she leaves her legacy of being one of the founding mothers of the congressional black caucus, national organization of women, and she lived her life advocating for minority ties and education. she was the first black woman to want to see it in congress and later becomes the first woman to run for president on a major party ticket. host: what do you think the differences are on the early generation of black women politician pioneers like shirley chisholm and today's black women in congress and leaders? guest: today's women in congress and leaders owe it all to their early feminist black foremothers. there's not much that separates them. all these women were ambitious, smart, capable. times justly, the dictated that there were not tha

forhis is a campaign poster shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress.e this because it says unbossed."d but it is for something else entirely. >> it is actually for a presidential campaign she waged in 1972. and she went to the democratic convention and rounded up about 10% of the votes. she is the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget and had a very admirable showing. but she had a reputation, national reputation, well before 1972. she is elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn. she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the republican, liberal republican ticket, was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders. there is this back and forth between these two. farmer runs on and the idea that brooklyn needs a man in congress. and shirley chisolm, she fires back. her campaign theme is like the one expressed on this poster. "unbought and unbossed." i'm fighting shirley chisolm. i'm to be your congresswoman. she embraces

. >> reporter: and so many drawing comparisons between kamala harris and shirley chisholm saying harrisning mate is an end to the journey chisholm started when she ran for president nearly 50 years ago. guys? >> all right. janai, thank you. >>> now joining us is congresswoman lisa blunt rochester, who was co-chair of the voting committee that helped pick senator harris as joe biden's running mate. thanks for being with us. we want to start if you could, walk us through the process for picking the vice presidential nomination. why was kamala harris chosen in particular? >> first of all, good morning, eva, and good morning, america. this is an exciting day and i will first start off by saying how excited and humbled i was to serve on this committee because it is an important pick and one of the first that the vice president biden had to make on this journey. what he was looking for was someone who was qualified, someone who could start on day one and, as he mentioned, had that simpatico relationship with him, and it is no surprise that of the many women that were considered, a substantial

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that is leaks and balance for black women's political leadership you know we are 48 years since shirley chisholm entered her name into nomination from the floor of the 1972 convention here we move that we're moving into the democratic convention next week where camila harris in the legacy of shirley chisholm will have her name internet and will accept the nomination as vice president making history and so i think today we posit that you know as a black woman in america i am excited about the announcement today and i think americans should be excited about the announcement today and i certainly believe that vice president biden his campaign are excited and as you see the a through z. as i'm starting to swell around the candidacy that includes calmly harris as a running mate how much recent events the killing of george floyd the black lives not a movement had on this decision by joe biden to pick kamel house because many observers talk about this this racial reckoning that's sweeping across america right now. yeah it definitely played a role in creating the environment for up black women vice pres

that's what we called shirley chisholm, and what i learned from her and what she was up against, thes c., shirley chisholm when joe biden announced that kamala harris would be the vice presidential candidate for the democratic party. it was a long journey from a black woman who is also had caribbean descent in her background. ran for president to a daughter of a jamaican father, now being on the ticket, showing that we kept fighting and we kept dreaming. we went through mrs. c.'s campaign and jesse jackson's campaign that helped raise the issue of a woman on the ticket in geraldine ferraro was a result of that in 1984, all the way to winning with barack obama twice, both his election and reelection. never stopped. and at the same time, kept having the masses that would involve themselves in activism where we became the thermostats as those that would go in the rooms that the temperature was changed because those of us on the outside was turning up the heat, would go to places others couldn't go. i know that mrs. c is looking at kamala harris knowing that it was all worthwhile, that n

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm.e are not often taught their stories. we all standans, on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. ew of a stroller's eye vi what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and me

women like mary church terrel, sandy lou hamer, and diane nash, and the great shirley chisholm. we are not often taught their stories. we all standans, on their shoulders. and there is another woman whose name is not known, whose story is not shared, another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that is my mother. shyamala gopalan harris. she came at the age of 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. she met my father who came from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love in that most american way, while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960's in the streets of oakland and berkeley. ew of a stroller's eye vi what the great john lewis called "good trouble." when i was five, my parents split, and my mother raised us on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around-the-clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed, helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice. she made it look easy, though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister maya and m

c-span profile interview with shirley chisholm. also at 6:00 p.m., a look at women in congress with house of representatives historian and curator using artifacts and paragraphs from the election of jeanette rankin to stories about margaret chase smith, claire booth louis and lindy bogs. watch american history tv on c-span. >>> chad williams is the author of "torchbearers of democracy: african-american soldiers in the world war i era." next he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers explaining how after fighting for the idea of democracy abroad, many returned to join movement aimed at secures more rights and better social standing for african-americans here at home. the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri, taped this event in november of 2019. >> i would like to introduce our first speaker for this morning, dr. chad williams. he is the professor of history and african-american studies at brandeis university. he specializes in african-american and modern united states history, world war i and a

. >> it was a long shot and shirley chisholm lacked the support of the democratic establishment and thelack political establishment but she ran. nearly 50 years later when she ran for president, california senator kamala harris referenced chisholm's legacy. >> so i stand on shirley chisholm's shoulders with great pride and a profound sense of responsibility. i also know that's why this is so important. this is so much bigger than me. i know that. >> and, indeed, kamala harris has now made history. as the first blam woman to join a major party ticket, today former vice president joe biden has chosen senator harris to be his running mate. and if they win she will become not just the first black woman vice president, but also the first woman vice president of any race and also, due to the legacy of her mother, the first asian american vice president. it will be history trihrice mad. for a lot of black women, this is the ultimate affirmation. the loyalty has not always been returned as senator harris herself pointed out during the democratic primary debate in atlanta which took place on the

when i marched in that women's march the day after donald trump was elected, i had this pin, shirley chisholm, on my hat. unbought, unbossed. of usight, i think all work, work, work. and to take a moment for it to sink in. last night was a moment that we have to let sink in. but also to energize us and fuel us to move forward. that is why tonight is so exciting and so special. because tonight's theme of america's promise and to hear from vice president joe biden is going to be a whole other level of special. i have known joe biden for almost 40 years. he is a friend of my dad's, my sister worked for him, my family has known his family and he has been personally, to me, a great friend and mentor. he has decency and integrity and every thing he does, he does with a singular passion to make the lives of those around him better. he has been tested, personally and professionally. he has confronted devastating loss, finding purpose in the darkness and inspiring others along the way to do so as well. and i can speak from experience because when my husband unexpectedly passed away at the age of 52, i

. >> there would be no senator harris as our vp without the courageous bold candidacy of shirley chisholm back in '72. >> amy alison is founder of she the people, a group dedicated to getting women of color elected. she hosted a presidential forum last year. that included then-candidate harris. >> we want to shape the future of the country, the political agenda. now we're in a position to do that. >> tonight, allison, alongside her group, gearing up for the night with a virtual women of color watch party. >> we're making space for black, latina, asian american and indigenous women. who have a political vision. >> but not all black voters are excited, despite harris' name on the ticket. >> i'm not happy, nor am i excited to vote for joe biden. >> some young voters still feeling lackluster about the ticket, their vote inspired not by who they're voting for but who they're voting against. >> i am eager to get trump out of office, and right now, biden is pretty much the only realistic way we have of doing that. >> i'm not excited for joe biden being president. the answer's no. biden will get

. >> there would be no senator harris as our vp without the courageous, bold candidacy of shirley chisholmack in '72, with ibb wells. >> reporter: he is the founder of "she the people." she hosted a presidential forum that included then-candidate harris. >> we didn't want to be just the backbone vote, we want to governor, we want to shape the country, we want to shape the political agenda. now we're in a position to do that. >> when i saw a broken justice system, i became a lawyer to try to fix it. >> reporter: she was california's top cop, serving as attorney general for 2011 to 2017. she was the first black, and asian woman to serve. some take issue with her decisions on policing. has senator harris demonstrated a willingness to re-examine those past views? >> she's got a real difficult job ahead. it's hard to run away from years and years and years of bro prosecuting black and brown bodies in the manner in which she did. she's got a mighty tall task ahead of her, in terms of convincing them that she's not the same person that she was all those years when she was california's top cop. >>

rail mary cloyd the fannie lou hamer and diane mannish constance baker motley and the great shirley chisholm we're not often taught their stories but as americans we all stand on their shoulders and there's another woman whose name isn't known whose story isn't shared another woman whose shoulders i stand on and that's my mother sha mulago pollen harris. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer at the university of california berkeley she met my father donald harris who had come from jamaica to study economics they fell in love in that most american way while marching together for justice in the civil rights movement of the 1960 s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley i got a stroller as i view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble when i was 5 my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers she worked around the clock to make it work packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills after we went to bed helping us with homework at the kitchen table and shuttling us to church for choir practice

the and so now we have kamala harris almost 50 years after shirley chisholm. if you are a black woman who ends up in this position, the kind of hard work you have to do to first be in those positions in california, attorney general and then senator, she is only the second black woman to be senator in this country, the enormous amount of hard work and focus focus she has done to get to this point. so, yes, this is an historic day. i imagine women around the country, particularly women who are upset about what happened in 2016 with hillary clinton not winning that campaign is a day that i think a lot of women are looking -- looked forward to for a long time. we'll obviously see what happens in november. but, again, i think this will expand people's ideas about who can lead. if you think about black women in leadership, not many black women in leadership even in your own kind of lives in offices, it is very rare that black women accede to positions of power. we should not take this moment for granted. we should not think of it as inevitable because it was a long

and senatorg for president, shen credited shirley chisholm paving the way for her back in 1972. david? >> linsey davis with us tonight, thank you. in, as you saw at th top tonight, saying he was a little surprised, given what he says, how nasty h joe biden on stage. so, i want to get right to our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. the president was asked if kamala harris makes this a stronger ticket, and here's what he said. >> very simply, is help former vice president joe biden's chances in november? >> well, i like vice president mike pence much better. he is solid as a rock, he's been a fantastic vice president. he's done everything you can do. he's respected by every religious group, whether it's e value jell call, whether it's any group, they respect mike pence. he's been a great vice president and i will take him over kamala. >> the president just before we came on the air tonight. and jon, what are you hearing from the trump campaign tonight? we know this fall, kamala harris will be on that stage up against vice president mike pence. >> reporter: well, the tr

ms harris has always been inspired by shirley chisholm who 50 years ago launched the 1st campaign by a black. american woman bit to become president is it likely to pave the way for her to become the 1st african-american president of the united states of america after 80 years or 4 years from now. well she'd be a lot closer when she and i think you hit the nail on the head when you're talking about whether it's 8 or 4 years because you know biden himself as has intimated suggested very subtly that he might not be a 2 term president right and at his age he's in his late seventy's you know maybe that he maybe he is only a one term president so when you think about somebody like harris who's already run for office has already had big rallies already campaigned and then to be picked as the number 2 in the party it kind of tease her up to be the you know if if if by and cannot serve for 8 years to be the next person in line and you have to think that would be a huge advantage coming into a primary and 2024 that's what it's going to be quite interesting pivotal moment for the united states

constance baker and the great shirley chisholm. their stories, but as americans, we all stand on their shoulders. and there's another woman, whose name isn't known, whose story isn't shared. another woman whose shoulders i stand on. and that's my mother. she came here from india to pursue her dream of curing cancer stopping at the university of california berkely, she met my father who had come from jamaica. they fell in love while marching for justice and the civil rights movement of the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkely, i got streets of oakland and berkely, igota streets of oakland and berkely, i got a strollers i view of people getting into what the greatjohn lewis people getting into what the great john lewis called people getting into what the greatjohn lewis called good trouble. when i was five my pa rents trouble. when i was five my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers she worked around the clock to make it work, packing lunches before we woke up and paying bills before we

in one hour, in 1992 interview with shirley chisholm, the first african-american congresswoman on the first women and african-american to run for a party nomination. she took on a field of white men for the presidential nomination in 1992. tom. my name is i would like to welcome our members to lunch as well as our guest, and to those listening live over the national public radio stations, and for those , before watch it later going further i would like to remind the members of upcoming events. next tuesday, the guest will be william fulbright. the 40th anniversary of the fulbright scholarship program. james speakers include buchanan on january 23 and john harrington on fairbury 19th. --ould like to remind february 19. if you have questions for our downer, please write them on the part on your table and send them to the front. i will ask as many questions as time permits. i would like to introduce our guest. please stand when i call your .ame please withhold your applause until i am completed. bernard shaw of cable news , lita williams of the new york times, adrian farrell, a member wh

and senator harris, when she was running for president, she often credited shirley chisholm, who was the first black woman who ran for president, paving the way for her back in 1972. david? >> all right, linsey davis with us here tonight. linsey, thank you. >>> president trump already weighing in, as you saw at the top tonight, saying he was a little surprised, given what he says, how nasty he believed she was to joe biden on that debate stage. so, i want to get right to our chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. because jon, you heard, the president was also asked late today if kamala harris makes this a stronger ticket and here's what he said. >> very simply, is she going to help former vice president biden's chances in november or is she going to hurt? >> well, i like vice president mike pence much better. he is solid as a rock, he's been a fantastic vice president. he's done everything you can do. he's respected by every religious group, whether it's evangelical, whether it's any other group, they respect mike pence. he's been a great vice president and i will take him ov

considered the backbone of the democratic party i call you roll call of black women leaders like shirley chisholm in mary mccarthy she was able to center black women specifically through her speech tonight that was huge i can tell you right now that in her also saying that there is not racism in america was a big line so i think that she was able to do things that she needed to do to speak to the base of voters democrats need to show up to vote in november what is the challenge for her now as we go forward before november because we still have many of the restrictions that the corona virus outbreak will put on those campaigning will she be able to reach the people that she so clearly needs to get on board the democratic ticket. well tomorrow night's team is america's promise where i can envision there is going to be a lot of conversation about the play and the by that here is take it has i think that come what harris has to now go out and talk about what it is or they want to do to move the country forward why they are the party why they are going to get there americans can believe in you can hav

followed by a 1992 c-span american profile interview with former congress women shirley chisholm. a look at women in congress with council representative matthew and curator miss elliott using artifacts and photographs of the election in 1917 two stories about other women. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span three. up next on history bookshelf, pulitzer prize winner ron journal calls on the leadership -- ulysses as graham. at the 18th annual national book festival in washington, d.c.. mr. chernow is the author of the biography grant. it was voted best book by the new york times. we reported the program in sete

we can't forget shirley chisholm back in 1972. but run seriously through the primary contest and certainly she was the first to come out the victor. in 2008, almost the victor having lost to obama. but, you know, i think she's going to leave, you know -- she will be a very influential and important figure and i think a lot of what we've seen in terms of -- you know, i think we underestimate -- we attribute kind of what happened with -- in this election more to trump and trump's policies, i think, in terms of the reaction to those as stimulating to run for women to run for office and stimulating the mobilization. for many women, and i can say this for many of the women who are students who i've taught or dealt with, the disappointment over the fact that the first woman presidential candidate wasn't elected when everyone thought she would be -- she would be elected played some role in that as well. perhaps not the role that the trump's policies have played, but i think we can't fully discount that as well. i think she deserves some

shirley chisholm of new york, and curtis collins of illinois. and it was these four black women who compromised the first cohort in congress. to divert all of her attention to the judiciary committee these four women appeared on public panels and worked on legislation together. although we all recognize the long history of womens involvement in american politics our work here today should be dedicated to writing a new narrative of american women and that it was the advent of the civil rights movement, the feminist movement and the voting rights act that expanded american democracy and enabled women such as barbara jordan to change the face, the political face of the nation. thank you. >> this is wonderful. i'm the organizer of this panel, and i gave the instructions to people to hold it to five minutes, and by gosh, people are holding it to five minutes. thank you. besides wanting to honor elizabeth perry, the election of 2018 inspired me to organize this session. in 1990 i began work on a coauthored book with two coauthors running as a woman. m

followed by a c-span american profile interview with former representative shirley chisholm from 1992eview. slaves must know the master because the slave's life is in the master's hands in the master cannot fool the slave. but the slave can fool the master. the master wants to be fooled. my father never dreamed of telling a white person the truth about anything. he loathed them. my turn came too. . could see what happened out of this endeavor, the white american has created the vision he wants to see. is reason that is important manuse when the same white looks around the world, he sees only the nigger he wants to see. for is mortally dangerous , foruture of this country our present fortunes. the world is full of all kinds of people who live beyond the confines of the american and a guilt ridden vision of the world which control so much of our life and ourking and which paralyzes moral sense. york --ounced in new >> i stand before you today as a candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency of the united states of america. [applause] in the midst of my congressional distr

racism in america followed by a 1992 c-span american profile interview with former congresswoman shirley chisholm. on american artifacts a look at women in congress with house of representatives historian matthew wasnewski using artifacts from the election in 1917 to stories about margaret chase smooth and lindy boggs. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> up next on history book shelf, pulitzer-prize winning author ron chernow recalls the life and leadership of ulysses s. grant at the 18th annual national book festival in washington, d.c. mr. chernow is the author of the biography "grant" voted one of the best books of 2017 by "the new york times" book review. we recorded the program in september of 2018. >> good afternoon. welcome, everybody. i'm david moskowitz, head of government relations and public policy at wells fargo and pleased to be here with you today. we are pleased to serve for the eighth year as a charter sponsor of the book festival and prouder to watch the book festival grow into the incredibly popular and impactful event it has become. i wouldn't be surprised --

arkans archives starting with james baldwin followed by a 1992 c-span profile interview with shirley chisholm. also at 6:00 p.m., a look at women in congress with house of representatives historian and curator using artifacts and paragraphs from the election of jeanette rankin to stories about margaret chase smith, claire booth louis and lindy bogs. watch american history tv on c-span. >>> chad williams is the author of "torchbearers of democracy: african-american soldiers in the world war i era." next he talks about the postwar activism of the soldiers explaining how after fighting for the idea of democracy abroad, many returned to join movement aimed at secures more rights and better social standing for african-americans here at home. the national world war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri, taped this event in november

women who have carried the democratic party on our backs not only nationally but locally since shirley chisholm, bernie wellcome, he has recognized that and his selection of kamala harris in my opinion and the opinion of so many black women in this country is that it's perfect. >> let's talk about why you think she's picked. she's the first woman to be elected as san francisco's district attorney, the first black woman to be california's attorney general, and the first black woman to represent california in the senate. no doubt she is a trailblazer. so i just read all that and i'm going to ask you why do you think she was picked? duh. >> duh, you already said it. >> i answered my question. >> when you think about it kamala harris is not only a trailblazer but she's a visionary pioneer for criminal justice reform in this country. if you really think about it's important for you to remember the era in which she was a prosecutor, right? there was no sort of bipartisan well-funded criminal justice reform movement. there were no progressive prosecutors like larry krasner and kim fox and rachel rolli

women like mary church terrell, mary cloyd bethune, constance baker motley, and the great shirley chisholmten taught their stories, but as americans, we stand on their shoulders. and there's another woman who is unknown, whose shoulders i stand on. that's my mother. she came here from india at age 19 to pursue her dream of curing cancer. at the university of california-berkeley, she met my father, who had come from jamaica to study economics. they fell in love while marching together for justice in the 1960s. in the streets of oakland and berkeley, i got a stroller's-eye view of people getting into what the great john lewis called good trouble. when i was 5, my parents split, and my mother raised us mostly on her own. like so many mothers, she worked around the clock to make it work. packing lunches before we woke up, and paying bills after we went to bed. helping us with homework and shuttling us to church. she made it look easy. though it never was. my mother instilled in my sister and me the values that would chart the course of our lives. she raised us to be proud, strong black women.