POTW: Shirley Chisholm Visits Fulton Street Festival
In 1972, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm strolled the tables lining Fulton Street, stopping to chat with vendors at the bustling outdoor festival in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. Just four years earlier, in 1968, Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) became the first Black woman elected to the US Congress,…
POTW: Process of EL-imination: the last days of the Fulton Street elevated
In search of something wholly unrelated, I fell upon the mischievous photograph above from the Eagle commemorating the final run of the…