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Great Lives

Peaches Golding on Shirley Chisholm

Great Lives

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

American-born Peaches Golding OBE - Bristol's former Lord Lieutenant and first black female High Sheriff - nominates African American politician Shirley Chisholm who ran unsuccessfully for US President in 1972.

Fellow guest Dr Kate Dossett, Professor of American History at Leeds University, describes Chisholm’s contribution to the cause of African Americans and to feminism.

Presented by Matthew Parris.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.

Transcript

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0:33.0

Long before Hillary Clinton dreamt of entering the White House,

0:38.0

another woman launched a bid to become the first female president of the United States. a black school teacher from presidential race as a Democrat because she said somebody had to do it.

0:55.0

Tremendous amounts of talent, she said, are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

1:02.0

My guest today, who's chosen the life of

1:04.8

Shirley Chisel is Peaches Golding OBE, recently appointed Lord

1:09.8

Lieutenant of Bristol, she's a businesswoman, equality campaigner, and was the first black woman

1:15.2

high sheriff.

1:16.9

You hail peaches from the southern United States, so it's perhaps not surprising that you've

1:21.8

chosen a woman like Shirley Chosome to talk about on

1:24.8

great lives is why have you chosen her?

1:27.9

I can remember as a young girl we would get various bulletins and magazines because my father also was an educator like Shirley Chism

1:36.8

and there her picture would be or on the news that had been broadcast during the evening.

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