Catalyst Pins and Buttons
Description: Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm, an advocate for the rights of people of color and for women's rights, became in November 1968 the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Four years later she became the first black person to seek a major party’s nomination for the U.S. presidency when she ran for the Democratic Party nomination. Chisholm represented New York’s Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn and when initially elected, was assigned to the House Agriculture Committee, which she felt was irrelevant to her urban constituency. In an unheard-of move, she demanded reassignment and got switched to the Veterans Affairs Committee. By the time she left that chamber, she had held a place on the prized Rules and Educatio...
Description: A black background with white text stating "CHEMICAL ENGINEER" at the top in a banner shape. Below, pronunciation is given as "kem-i-kuhl en-juh-neer." A definition describes the role as a "hybrid species, partly human, partly coffee" and ends with "Aka: A master of things that boil, a solver of impossible equations, a caffeine-fueled catalyst for change."
