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Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm: Shirley Chisholm, American politician, the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress. Shirley St. Hill was the daughter of immigrants; her father was from British Guiana (now Guyana) and her mother from Barbados. She grew up in Barbados and in her native Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Brooklyn College (B.A., 1946).
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Shirley Jones Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! (1955), Carousel (1956), and The Music Man (1962).
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List of EastEnders characters (2003) Shirley Benson is played by Robyn Moore. The character was axed in 2004. Shirley is initially seen in Albert Square in May 2003. A divorcée, she has three sons, now grown up; two are in the army and the other lives in New Zealand. She works at the Walford Bookies and lives with her cat, Boots, at 89a George Street.
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Shirley Chisholm Biography.com 1 Born Shirley St. Hill on November 30, 1924 in New York City. 2  Chisholm spent part of her childhood in Barbados with her grandmother and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1946. 3  She began her career as a teacher and earned a Master’s degree in elementary education from Columbia University.
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[UNSUNG SHEROES] Donna Brazile on the Legacy of Shirley Chisholm I went over to tell him her story— the story of a woman who made a difference in this world as a fierce lawmaker, a great champion for equality, a trailblazer for women and minorities. As a young intern on Capitol Hill, I was proud to have met the Honorable Shirley Chisholm before her retirement from Congress.
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Shirley Chisholm Biography.com Shirley Chisholm was born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in a predominantly black neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Chisholm spent part of her childhood in Barbados with her grandmother.
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Velociraptors Prehistoric life. Velociraptors. Velociraptors were made famous in the film 'Jurassic Park', though they were a little less impressive in reality, standing not much taller than domestic turkeys. A famous fossil has one locked in battle with a Protoceratops.
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- Actress and singer whose claim to fame was the tambourine-playing mother, Shirley Partridge, on The Partridge Family, where she starred with her stepson David Cassidy. Shirley Mae Jones was born in Pennsylvania; Paul and Marjorie Jones named their only child after the beloved and famous Shirley Temple.
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Shirley Jones She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical situation-comedy television series The Partridge Family (1970–74), which co-starred her real-life stepson David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy.
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Emma Watson Will Star as Belle in Beauty and the Beast. Letâs Cast the Other Parts! The resemblance between Downton Abbey’s Mrs. Patmore and the cursed teapot Mrs. Potts has been noted on Twitter. Yes, Angela Lansbury, who voiced the original role, is still alive, but Nicol’s uncanny ability to play a stern-but-maternal maid should be rewarded.
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- A church has stood on this site for many centuries, but only the lower west tower remains from the Norman period, the rest of the church being rebuilt between 1865 and 1870. Charlotte Bronte worshipped here when visiting friends Mary Taylor and Ellen Nussey who lived nearby. Ellen’s grave is in fact in the churchyard, as is that of Charlotte’s teacher, Margaret Wooler. Charlotte renames it “Briarfield Church” in her novel “Shirley”.
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Shirley Chisholm In July 1976, as the first African-American to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, Rep. Barbara Charline Jordan speaks about a solution to the problems facing America.
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- Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Guatemala, 1992. Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a life-long activist for Indigenous and women’s rights who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992, and whose struggle to share with the world the history of oppression and violence against the Mayan peoples has made her an iconic global leader.
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Shirley Chisholm Shirley Anita St. Hill was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents from the Caribbean region. She had three younger sisters. Their father, Charles Christopher St. Hill, was born in British Guiana and arrived in the United States via Antilla, Cuba, on April 10, 1923, aboard the S.S. Munamar in New York City.
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The First Black Woman To Run For President Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress, sought the Democratic nomination in 1972 as the first black woman to run for president.
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Louise Bryant Louise Bryant. 1885-1936. Louise Bryant was a celebrated journalist, radical, and feminist. Born in Nevada in 1885, Bryant graduated from the University of Oregon and married Paul Trullinger, a Portland dentist, in 1909. The couple lived on a houseboat in the Willamette River, but the independent-minded Louise maintained a separate apartment in Portland and kept her maiden name.
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Shirley Chisholm Her community base helped make possible a win when she ran for the New York State Assembly in 1964. In 1968, Shirley Chisholm ran for Congress from Brooklyn, winning that seat while running against James Farmer, a veteran of the 1960s Freedom Rides in the south. She thus became the first black woman elected to Congress.
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- Alex D. Chisholm continued sailing for the Interlake fleet into the 1960s before being laid up in Erie, Pa. as surplus tonnage. In 1966, she was purchased by Medusa Portland Cement for conversion to a cement carrier.
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- Charlotta Bass was a civil rights activist who in 1912 became the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United States and who in 1952 became the first to be nominated for Vice President of the United States.
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- ACTOR DONNA DOUGLAS’ ELLY MAE CLAMPETT WAS AN ICON OF THE ORIGINAL “BEVERLY HILLS BRAND”, A BRAND THAT WAS ALTERED BY THE TRAGIC BEVERLY HILLS MURDERS OF SHARON TATE, HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
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- 1 Ingrown hairs appear as small bumps on the skin. 2  Ingrown hairs commonly occur on the face, neck, armpits, pubic region, and legs. 3  This condition is usually caused by shaving, waxing, or tweezing hair.
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- Episode 1.01 to 2015 Christmas Special. Lesley Nicol (born 19th June 1953; Plymouth, Devon, England) is the actress who plays Beryl Patmore in Downton Abbey. She is also well known for playing Auntie Annie in East is East and its sequel West is West and for playing Mrs Pants in Blackadder II.
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Shirley Chisholm Works Cited. 1  Barron, James. “Shirley Chisholm, 'Unbossed' Pioneer in Congress, Is Dead at 80.” New York Times. 2  Chisholm, Shirley. Unbossed and Unbought: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition. 3  Chisholm ‘72: Unbossed and Unbought. DVD. 4  United States House of Representatives, History, Art and Archives. “Biography: Chisholm, Shirley Anita. 5  Winslow, Barbara.
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APV MARYGOLD aka MARION CROWE (British, 1896-1979) A Tryst at Carnival Time. Photographs and images: We ensure that images on our site are faithful to the originals but point out that slight colour variation can occur according to the screen on which they are viewed. Image is copyright Felix Rosenstiel's Widow and Son.
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Charlotte Cushman Charlotte Saunders Cushman (July 23, 1816 – February 18, 1876) was an American stage actress.Her voice was noted for its full contralto register, and she was able to play both male and female parts.lthough Cushman maintained that she was devoted to Stebbins, she became involved with another woman not long after her relationship with Stebbins began. Cushman met an 18-year-old actress, Emma Crow, the daughter of Wayman Crow, and fell for her.
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Lesley Nicol Lesley Nicol at the Internet Movie Database. Appearances. Lesley Nicol (born 19th June 1953; Plymouth, Devon, England) is the actress who plays Beryl Patmore in Downton Abbey. She is also well known for playing Auntie Annie in East is East and its sequel West is West and for playing Mrs Pants in Blackadder II.