Being Female Doesn’t Count
May 13th, 2008 | By Bernard Bygott | Category: Political PinionsI had (for a few months now) assumed that Hillary Clinton was the first woman in the United States to win a presidential primary. Turns out, as you may already know, I was wrong. In 1972 Shirley Chisholm took sixty-seven percent of the vote in the New Jersey Democratic primary, becoming both the first African-American and first woman to … [continue]
