Shirley Chisholm

the Novel

Shirley Chisholm
She Walked Amidst The Women
by
Forest Hairston

Shirley Chisholm stood on the top landing at the grandeur steps of Capitol Hill. Quietly calm, she looked further on beyond the steeply steps that stretched across every long winding road. Standing with the stout heart of a fierce warrior and the soft face of a beautiful woman, she had trudged on here through all her struggles. This glorious lady, Shirley Anita Saint Hill Chisholm, happily born in Brooklyn, New York, 1924, began her higher education at Brooklyn College and Columbia University as well. Shirley married Conrad Chisholm and suddenly nearly twenty years later Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress. Here was a time, 1968, where stood, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, the Flower Children and Black Power. They were all here with President Richard Nixon, while Black and White American people were dying in a strange regretful place called Vietnam.

Yet here now, Shirley Chisholm had made her way near the top. As she looked around and saw where she was and who she was, Shirley reached out and touched all the great women who had stoically stood here at this cold, hard, drifting land called America.

Still, Shirley Chisholm was poised here in honor of all the great women who had struggled along this distant shore. And from where the day suddenly began, Shirley stood and recited her fervent stance advocating women's rights, abortion reform, and day care, along with environmental protection. Calmly, Shirley Anita Saint Hill Chisholm screamed for it all, just as she vigorously screamed for an end to the utterly disgraceful Vietnam War. Even more, during the seven terms, which she served in the United States House of Representatives, Shirley was admired by both Black women and her White counterparts as well. Even while it became quite obvious that she'd become extremely famous for being the first Black woman elected to Congress, Shirley was known to have always presented herself with an elegantly dignified persona, which nearly all the Black congressional women proudly followed.

"I want everyone to listen to me!" Shirley Chisholm said. "Unequivocally, our absolute women's rights is now!
And our women's rights will never end!"

Black History

Black Legacy

Shirley Chisholm indeed respectively ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. She quietly stated that her campaign was more to set an example for her Black people to follow with courage and dignity. Here now, standing among Shirley's swelling campaign crowd in Detroit, Michigan, were two other great women, Vera Carter and Ruth Hairston. Shirley Chisholm applauded these women as simply being Black mothers who had came to Detroit all the way from the Deep South, yet fighting for their civil rights.

And so, those who stood atop the hill alongside Shirley Chisholm were the mothers, the daughters and the sisters whom were gathered from dire Black slavery and gathered from freedom as well. They were all our glorious women who are yet standing here aside their men, Black or White. Forever these women ever stand here irresistible to the harsh bitter pain, which call upon their irresistible courage.

It's about Black History. It's about Shirley Chisholm.
At a time where - She Walked Amidst The Women.