First Black Woman To Run For President
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Presidential election making her also the first woman ever to run for the democratic party s presidential nomination u s.
Senator margaret chase smith had previously run for the republican presidential nomination in 1964. And in 2020 kamala harris would be elected as the first black woman to serve as vice president. Chisholm said she ran for the office despite the. Her decidedly insurgent candidacy though helped break ground for the women who would run for president after her from the pre suffrage candidacy of belva ann lockwood in 1884 and 1888 to the candidacies of margaret chase smith who at the 1964 republican convention became the first woman to have her named entered into nomination at a major party s convention shirley chisholm who in 1972.
The first black woman to run for president the congresswoman from new york launched a spirited campaign in 1972 for the democratic nomination.
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