Unbought and unbossed / Shirley Chisholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005, author.

Contributor:

Houghton Mifflin Company, publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005.

Chisholm, Shirley.

United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.

United States.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 177 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970.

Summary:

"The first black women elected to Congress speaks out on her life and on the American political system" -- From book jacket.

Contents:

pt. 1. Growing up. Early years in Barbados

Back to Brooklyn

College years

Starting in politics

pt. 2. Getting there. Teaching, marriage, and the political arena

In the state assembly

Running for congress

Breaking the rules

pt. 3. Speaking out. The speech against the war

How I view congress

Facing the abortion question

The Lindsay campaign and coalition politics

Black politicians and the black minority

pt. 4. Looking ahead. A government that cannot hear the people

Women and their liberation

Youth and America's future.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1970 by Shirley Chisholm"--verso of title page.

Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 1971

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket.

Banks Collection copy has, laid in, an address by the author, removed from a book, Black viewpoints. The article is titled: Black is an attitude.

OCLC:

93873