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her campaign theme is, unbought and unbossed. she embraces this advocacy role. she is elected. she becomes the first african-american woman of congress in 1969. she serves a career that in a lot of ways is symbolic. she helped establish the congressional black caucus in 1971, and then she also gains a prominent committee assignment. she is the first african-american woman to serve on the house rules committee which is the committee that passes legislation onto the floor. she had her hands on a lot of important developments in the house. she also had a national reputation. she was someone who was very outspoken, which represents really a lot of the women who were coming in to congress at this point. her colleague from new york city was bell labs sock who served for a couple terms -- bella bzug who served for a couple of terms. these were two women who spoke their minds. >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter @cs panhistory to keep up on the latest history news. >> this year, c-span is to

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. -- her campaign theme is unblocked and unbossed. i am fighting. i'm here to be a congresswoman. she embraces this advocacy role. she is elected, she becomes the first african-american woman in congress in 1969. and to serve as a career that come in a lot of ways, is symbolic. she is the first. the helped establish congressional black caucus iin 1971. then she also gives a very prominent committee assignment -- she is the first african-american woman to serve on the house rules committee. which is the committee that pulses legislation onto the floor. so she had her hands on a lot development in the house, but she also had a national reputation. who is very one outspoken, which is -- which lot of nts, really, a the women who were coming in the congress at this point. new york ague from city was bella, who served for house in terms in the the 1970's and would later go on and try be elected mayor of new york, unsuccessfully. but these were two women who spoke their minds. >> "american history tv", a foreign relations marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall.