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Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time. ...Its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. - Shirley Chisholm Attribution: Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924), African American politician. Unbought and Unbossed, ch. 10 (1970). Chisholm was a Congresswoman from a poor district of Brooklyn.

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Shirley Chisholm

Salem on History:

• Shirley Chisholm

American Decades:

• Chisholm, Shirley 1924- (1970's Government and Politics)

Encyclopedia:

• Chisholm, Shirley Anita St. Hill (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)

American Eras Primary Sources:

• "An Interview on Title IX with Shirley Chisholm, Holly Knox, Leslie R. Wolfe, Cynthia G. Brown, and Mary Kaaren Jolly" (1970's Education)

Salem on Literature:

• Shirley Chisholm (The Sixties in America)