‘A bill has come due’: Kamala Harris’ rise and the decades of Black women before her

, an effort to register Black voters around the South. But, less than a year after the 1963 March on Washington, Hamer’s organizing effectively reset the American political map.

Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-NY, announces her run for president at the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1972.The Voting Rights Act of 1964 not only secured increased access to the ballot box but created new districts where Black candidates were more likely to be elected. By 1968, Lynch said, Shirley Chisholm, a Brooklyn preschool teacher, had recognized what still seems to baffle many political professionals today.

"I am not the candidate of Black America, although I am Black and proud,” Chisholm said. “I am not the candidate of the women's movement ... although I am a woman and equally proud of that. I am the candidate of the people and my presence before you symbolizes a new era in American political history."Years after Chisholm retired from office, other political events also boosted the number of Black women in public office at every level of government, said Harris, the professor.

Karen Bass, now a California congresswoman, began her political career by organizing a community response to the crack epidemic in the 1980s. Kamala Harris graduated from law school in 1989 and became a prosecutor the following year in a county that included Oakland, which was“Black women now have a lineage and a political genealogy that may have escaped some people’s notice,” Harris said.

All of them did a hell of a lot more than the ones of today. Back then they were focused on equal rights and justice. Today it's all about making self history and breaking the glass ceiling 😏

She is not a black woman

Kamala is a cop! I thought we wanted to defund police? VoteJoJorgensen

Kamala couldn’t hold a candle to those women.

Black woman will be the best president for America if any accidents. I fully believe black woman will be a very good leader for America.

I thought she was asian American

I enslaved prisoners I faked weed smoking time line I lockup 1500+ for the same weed shit I Blocked evidence freeing innocent man from the death I failed primary's I drop out All of sudden I am ready now ! Who am I ? RT till November Asking from my friends

Please make a show about these women.

Barbara Jordan!!!! What a woman. What a person who deserves a big statue 😀

MSDNC is now campaigning for Harris. Her sister works there! Trump2020 KAG2020

Asking. Since Kamala is 50% Jamaican and Joe said he was picking an AA women. does the AA community feel they've been slighted again by JoeBiden? Opinion?

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MSNBC are thrashing the Harris story/ nomination but other Liberal media are not. Perhaps they know something and it’s No Good.

Such fawning praise.

She’s not black !!!

The woman who put more people in prison for weed than anyone who also laughed (yes) when asked if she had ever smoked weed. Great job Dems. 😂

How did Willie Brown lead to her rise?

Hey they didn’t screw their way to the top

OMGosh! 😂😂😂😂😂 NBC & EVERY MSM station blasted Tucker Carlson for mispronouncing Kamala's name yesterday. Today...for the WHOLE world to see... Basement JOE...the guy who should know how to pronounce it right... pronounced it JUST-LIKE-TUCKER! Died laughing. Pay back's a b-

Interesting, a candidate is chosen based on sex and the color of her skin... and the media cheers. Such hypocrisy

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Im watching the evening news... you all need to stop calling everything BREAKING NEWS.... 99% of the time IT'S NOT

Judge Frees Man Who Spent More Than 13 Years In Prison For Crime He Says He Didn’t Commit Judge rips Harris' office for hiding problems via SFGate

Racist comment NBC media never says this about white politicians

Luciferian vicious uncle Obama is in the back, he cooks political racism to sell to people of color, and the blood of their race will soon flow from the walls of the White House or just this White supremacist P.Trump still siege.

Just watched the softest “profile” of a politician I’ve ever seen. Googling NBC news right now to see the one they did on Pence 4 years ago... turns out it doesn’t exist. Apparently they’re only done for Democrats

Trump Vote Yes on the floor

Actually it was Wille Brown 😂😂😂

boring 💤

Dang it was nice to not start the news with Trump or Covid being the headline Oxygen

You guys are insufferable.

congrats on being the first affirmative action pick!

Ms. Fannie Lou Hamer and Ms. Barbara Jordan are some of my favorites

Another puff peace by the FakeNewsMedia

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