Shirley Chisholm se zapsala do historie v roce 1968, kdy se stala prvn\u00ed \u010derno\u0161skou \u017eenou zvolenou do Kongresu. Jej\u00ed zvolen\u00ed bylo pr\u016flomov\u00fdm okam\u017eikem, kter\u00fd zbo\u0159il rasov\u00e9 a genderov\u00e9 bari\u00e9ry v americk\u00e9 politice. Neochv\u011bjn\u00e1 obhajoba rovnosti a soci\u00e1ln\u00ed spravedlnosti, kterou Chisholm prosazovala, zanechala trval\u00fd odkaz pro cel\u00fd n\u00e1rod.<\/p>\n\n
Chisholm se narodila v roce 1924 v Brooklynu v New Yorku a jej\u00ed rodi\u010de byli p\u0159ist\u011bhovalci z Karibiku. Za\u010dala svou kari\u00e9ru jako u\u010ditelka v mate\u0159sk\u00e9 \u0161kole, ale brzy se zapojila do aktivismu. P\u0159ipojila se k organizac\u00edm jako Liga \u017een voli\u010d\u016f a N\u00e1rodn\u00ed sdru\u017een\u00ed pro povznesen\u00ed barevn\u00e9ho obyvatelstva (NAACP) a bojovala za ob\u010dansk\u00e1 pr\u00e1va a pos\u00edlen\u00ed postaven\u00ed \u017een.<\/p>\n\n
V roce 1964 byla Chisholm zvolena do z\u00e1konod\u00e1rn\u00e9ho sboru st\u00e1tu New York a stala se tak druhou Afroameri\u010dankou, kter\u00e1 byla do tohoto org\u00e1nu zvolena. O \u010dty\u0159i roky pozd\u011bji napsala n\u00e1rodn\u00ed historii t\u00edm, \u017ee z\u00edskala m\u00edsto ve Sn\u011bmovn\u011b reprezentant\u016f USA. Jako \u010dlenka Kongresu byla Chisholm hlasitou kriti\u010dkou v\u00e1lky ve Vietnamu a prosazovala progresivn\u00ed politiku v oblasti vzd\u011bl\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00ed, zdravotn\u00ed p\u00e9\u010de a ekonomick\u00e9 rovnosti.<\/p>\n\n
V roce 1972 se Chisholm stala prvn\u00ed \u017eenou, kter\u00e1 usilovala o demokratickou nominaci na prezidenta. P\u0159esto\u017ee nominaci nez\u00edskala, jej\u00ed kampa\u0148 vyslala siln\u00fd vzkaz o pot\u0159eb\u011b v\u011bt\u0161\u00edho zastoupen\u00ed \u017een a barevn\u00fdch lid\u00ed v politice. Chisholm v\u011b\u0159ila, \u017ee jej\u00ed kandidatura povzbud\u00ed ostatn\u00ed, aby vystoupili proti status quo a prosazovali zm\u011bnu.<\/p>\n\n
Chisholmovo d\u011bdictv\u00ed sah\u00e1 daleko za jej\u00ed zvolen\u00ed do Kongresu. Byla ne\u00fanavnou obh\u00e1jkyn\u00ed soci\u00e1ln\u00ed spravedlnosti a bojovala za rovn\u00e1 pr\u00e1va, vzd\u011bl\u00e1n\u00ed a ekonomick\u00e9 p\u0159\u00edle\u017eitosti pro v\u0161echny Ameri\u010dany. Jej\u00ed pr\u00e1ce pomohla p\u0159ipravit cestu pro budouc\u00ed generace \u017een a men\u0161in v politice.<\/p>\n\n
Na po\u010dest pr\u016fkopnick\u00fdch \u00fasp\u011bch\u016f Chisholm stav\u00ed m\u011bsto New York sochu na jej\u00ed po\u010dest v r\u00e1mci iniciativy She Built NYC. C\u00edlem iniciativy je napravit genderovou nerovnov\u00e1hu ve ve\u0159ejn\u00fdch pam\u00e1tk\u00e1ch a uk\u00e1zat p\u0159\u00edsp\u011bvky \u017een k historii m\u011bsta.<\/p>\n\n
Chisholmovo heslo \u201enekoupen\u00e1 a ne\u0159\u00edzen\u00e1\u201c odr\u00e1\u017eelo jej\u00ed neochv\u011bjn\u00fd z\u00e1vazek v\u016f\u010di jej\u00edm z\u00e1sad\u00e1m. Odm\u00edtla d\u011blat kompromisy ve sv\u00fdch hodnot\u00e1ch nebo se podvolit tlaku mocn\u00fdch z\u00e1jm\u016f. Jej\u00ed odvaha a odhodl\u00e1n\u00ed dodnes inspiruj\u00ed aktivisty a politiky.<\/p>\n\n
Shirley Chisholm byla vizion\u00e1\u0159sk\u00e1 v\u016fdkyn\u011b, kter\u00e1 bo\u0159ila bari\u00e9ry a zanechala nesmazatelnou stopu v americk\u00e9 historii. Jej\u00ed boj za rovnost, jej\u00ed odhodl\u00e1n\u00ed bourat zdi a jej\u00ed neochv\u011bjn\u00fd duch z n\u00ed d\u011blaj\u00ed opravdovou pr\u016fkopnici a inspiraci pro budouc\u00ed generace.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shirley Chisholm: Pr\u016fkopnice v americk\u00e9 politice Prolomen\u00ed bari\u00e9r v Kongresu Shirley Chisholm se zapsala do historie v roce 1968, kdy se stala prvn\u00ed \u010derno\u0161skou \u017eenou zvolenou do Kongresu. Jej\u00ed zvolen\u00ed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[1368,19,1879,20061,64,20060,527,1169,18619,1068],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-american-history","tag-civil-rights","tag-first-black-congresswoman","tag-equality","tag-shirley-chisholm","tag-social-justice","tag-trailblazer","tag-women-in-politics","tag-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15023,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions\/15023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}