Candidates Day

March 4, 1972

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ATLANTA, March 3 (AP)—Representative Shirley Chisholm, campaigning for the Democratic Presidential nomination, urged members of Spelman College audience today to run as delegates committed to her in state party delegate caucuses.

“Delegates—that's the name of the game,” the Brooklyn Democrat said. “It is important for me to get one delegate in this state, two delegates in another—and it doesn't matter what color they are.”

“You have to understand the nature of power in this country,” the black candidate told her audience at the predominantly Negro college. “Power concedes nothing—it never has and never will without struggle.”

Mrs. Chisholm, running a campaign for the “have‐nots” of American society, said she would use her influence on the party nominee to choose Negro Vice‐Presidential running mate.

She has also called for appointment of a woman as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and an American Indian as Secretary of the Interior.

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