Bygone tradition

This month in history (16 years ago)

Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, issued a rousing call to renewed action during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech at the School of Business Administration. She warned that Americans must rekindle their commitment to equal rights. “We must become change agents — resort to marches again,” she said. “We are going through a serious period of retrogression in the nation today. … There appears to be a disintegration of everything that makes up a civilized collectivity.” — The University Record

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