Cori Bush was sworn in just days ago
Cori Bush makes history as first Black Congresswoman in Missouri I have St. Louis in my bag. That s how it feels. When I walk into the House Chambers, I am bringing St. Louis with me,” said Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush, who readies for morning press interviews inside her office in the Longworth House office building on her swearing-in day on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com Laurie Skrivan
Cori Bush makes history as first Black Congresswoman in Missouri
Surrounded by the cheers and cameras of family and friends, Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush reacts to seeing a sign bearing her name and title outside her office in the Longworth House office building on her swearing-in day on Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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While Shirley Chisholm winning her bid for Congress may be old news now, when she ran in 1968 there was nothing inevitable about it. Chisholm had been a schoolteacher and administrator, who had recently been elected to the New York State Assembly in 1964, a historic first for a Black woman from Brooklyn.
Born and bred in Bed-Stuy, the heart of the 12th Congressional District, Chisholm knew her constituents. As a working woman of color, she was one of them. Wearing her Sunday best and smart cat-eyeglasses, in perfect diction with a slight lisp and a bit of West Indian lilt, she staked out her positions as a “candidate for the people” – by which she meant all the people in her multi-ethnic district.