276 300
487
488
487
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CHISHOLM, SHIRLEY.
Bring U.S. Together. Vote Chisholm 1972,
Unbought and Unbossed.
Photographic poster, 14
1
⁄
2
x 11
1
⁄
2
inches, printed in black and
red on stiff white cardstock.
New York, 1972
[500/700]
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005), politician, educator, and author, represented New
York City’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became
the first African-American woman elected to Congress and on January 25, 1972 became the first
major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the
Democratic presidential nomination (US Senator Margaret Chase Smith had previously run for the
1964 Republican presidential nomination).She received 152 first-ballot votes at the 1972
Democratic National Convention.
488
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DELLUMS, RON.
Do you REALLY know Ron Dellums?
Pictorial broad-
side, 14 x 8
1
⁄
2
inches, with portraits of Huey Newton and Dellums, side-by-side.
Oakland, CA, 1970
[400/600]
A piece of “dirty tricks” trying to tie Dellums to the Panthers. He first ran for office in 1970 and
served as Oakland’s forty-eighth mayor and third African-American mayor. From 1971 to 1998, he
was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern
California’s 9th Congressional District after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C.
489
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GREGORY, DICK.
NEEDED. Public Citizen #1.
Black and white poster,
17
1
⁄
2
x 22
1
⁄
2
inches.
Np, 1968
[600/800]
Amid the chaos of the Democratic Convention and the presidential campaigns of 1968, comedian
Dick Gregory made a serous run for the office, garnering 45,000 votes. He famously declared that
America was “worth saving.”