NYC establishes ‘Shirley Chisholm Day’ to honor trailblazing New Yorker
Shirley Chisholm, the Brooklyn-born politician who made history in 1968 as the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, will be remembered every on her birthday, Nov. 30, according to a ...
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How an Interracial Marriage Sparked One of the Most Scandalous Trials of the Roaring Twenties
Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white ...