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The movie chronicles Chisholm’s first days in Congress as a U.S. representative from New York City’s 12th district, which includes Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant, and then recounts her decision to run for president and all the roadblocks that ensued. Fighting for her place in the U.S. House of Representative starts immediately, when she’s assigned to the Agricultural Committee. Conventional wisdom says take your first assignment and be grateful. Not knowing anything about a farmer’s life, Chisholm fights her way off that committee and onto another. And so it begins. Conventions thrown out the window. Chisholm finding her own path.
Arthur Hardwick Jr. , who had served with her in the New York State legislature, helps with strategy. Stanley Thompson , campaign manager. Robert Gottlieb , a white Cornell law student, becomes her student organizer. Barbara Lee , Chisolm’s young protégée, acts as her liaison to the Black community and a link to the influential Black Panthers.
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