Speech where she Demands that the United States Spends its Resources on "People and Peace, Not Profits and War"

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• Indiana State University

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3-16-1969

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Description: Speech on March 16, 1996 delivered by Congresswoman Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to Congress, regarding decrease in funding for food and other social programs to support the Vietnam War. Creator: Congresswoman Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm. Source: In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century. Edited by Senator Robert Torricelli and Andrew Carroll.