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Which political organizations did Shirley Chisholm help co-found during her career?
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Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm, 1972.
Shirley Chisholm was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) in 1971. The NWPC was established to identify, recruit, train, endorse, and support women seeking public office, aiming to improve the status of women by increasing their voice in government. Chisholm also ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1972, becoming the first African American woman to seek a major party's nomination for president. While not a co-founder, she was a supporter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), an activist group founded in 1966 that promotes equal rights for women.1234