Baltimore Afro-American, January 14th, 2005
Murphy, Laura W. Baltimore Afro-American 01-14-2005 The late Shirley Chisholm taught me a lot about being a woman. At the tender age of 22 I had the opportunity to work for her as one of her legislative assistants from 1977 to 1979 while she was a member of the United States House of Representatives. During her 14 years in Congress, Shirley Chisholm gave dozens of women the opportunity to hold professional positions on Capitol Hill when most of her male colleagues in Congress would only give secretarial or clerk positions to women like me. People would stare at her when she walked down the h...
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