Authors: Shirley Chisholm

1945–1989

For the Equal Rights Amendment

Source: Congressional Record, May 21, 1969, Extensions of Remarks E4165-6, and Congressional Record, 91st Congress, 2nd Session, 1970, 116, pt. 21: 28028–29. Address to the United States House of Representatives

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1945–1989

Speech Introducing the Equal Rights Amendment

Congressional Record, May 21, 1969, Extensions of Remarks E4165-6. Available from Duke University Digital Repository. https://goo.gl/STMGed. Chisholm (1924–2005), the first black woman elected to Congress, represented her district in New

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