![]() ![]() ![]() I think a lot of the time when you’re Black, you’re seen as radical.” Of course, Shirley would fall into that pro-movement category. For the anti it’s shot very traditionally and for the pros, it’s shot really handheld. ![]() For those of you who watch the series, you’ll see there’s a combination of types of filmmaking and camerawork that go on. Film director, Amma Asante directed two Mrs America episodesĪmma, speaking at a BAFTA masterclass earlier this month, said: “For my two episodes, Shirley Chisholm and Betty Friedan, I had to consume as much information as I could. Tonight’s episode was directed by Amma Asante, who urged producers to give her that particular story, and is a powerful insight into Shirley’s efforts and who she was. ![]() Mrs America chronicles the historical campaign for a change to the US constitution that would prevent equal rights under the law from being “denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex,” the proposed text read.Īctivist Shirley, played by Orange is the New Black actress Uzo Aduba, rallied for the amendment. Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, is one of the personalities at the centre of BBC2’s historical drama Mrs America – but what else do we know about the politician who sought to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified in the 70s? Uzo Aduba as Shirley Chisholm in Mrs America ![]()
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