Chisholm

[ chiz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Shirley Anita St. Hill, 1924–2005, U.S. politician: congresswoman 1969–83; first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives.

Redhead Mountain Bike Park in Chisholm, Minnesota, used to be iron mine pits.

The regression gravity isn’t nearly as strong with Chisholm, provided he returns to the field soon.

Redhead Mountain Bike Park in Chisholm, Minnesota, officially opens in June with 23 miles of world-class trails built around former iron-ore pits.

The event also honored the election of African-American members of Congress, including Charles Rangel and Shirley Chisholm.

Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm and others started the National Organization for Women and Ms. Magazine.

“I spend about 20 minutes in front of each one until the police show up,” Chisholm explains.

“The bible says Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated,” says Chisholm.

Raised in the poverty-stricken Foster neighborhood in Portland, Chisholm started street preaching at age 19.

Her name was Miss Chisholm and she had the distinction of being in business.

The next day was a busy one for Josie as well as Alice Chisholm.

Mrs. Chisholm, the widow, found neither sympathy nor friends at the scene of the tragedy.

At the age of twenty she married Captain Chisholm, and went with him to Madras.

Mrs. Chisholm was a lady who gave early tokens of her vocation.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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