Talk:Shirley Chisholm

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”.^[1]

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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Shirley Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968 she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, and she represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972 she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. In 2015 Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Photograph: Thomas J. O'Halloran. Restoration: Adam Cuerden

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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)

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)

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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Change "Chisholm became the first African American to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States," to "Chisholm became the first Black American to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States,"

Rationale: the record does not appear to support the inferential claim that Ms. Chisholm was of African descent. Her mother and grandmother were from Barbados and her father was from Guiana. This is the only place where non-source, indirect quote material in the article uses the term 'African American' to refer to Ms. Chisholm, and other source materials cite her self-reference as "Barbadian American" or Black. This appearance of the term is not in direct quote of a source material, so it would be more appropriate to use modern terminology that aligns with Ms. Chisholm's self-identification. ^[1] Alex.harriswv (talk) 18:57, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Shirley Chisholm was an American who descended from black, sub-Saharan Africans, and thus is an African American. The fact that the slaveship that carried her ancestors in chains to the New World stopped in the Caribbean instead of continuing towards what is now the United States does not deny her the right to be called an African American. The position that only persons whose ancestors were enslaved within the United States can be deemed to be African Anerican not only is inconsistent with the way that the term is used by the U.S. gvernment (including in the U.S. Census), but it is a fringe position (how many reliable sources claim that Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Cicely Tyson and Louis Farrakhan are not African American?) and certainly not NPOV. Chisholm should continue to be referred to as African American. AuH2ORepublican (talk) 00:10, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Day Creature (talk) 02:29, 9 November 2025 (UTC)