Autographed MS cover of Shirley Chisholm and Sissy Farenthold

The January 1973 edition featured Shirley Chisholm and Sissy Farenthold on the cover with the title: "The Ticket That Might Have Been." 

Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress.  She represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford–Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.  The daughter of immigrants from Barbados and Guyana, Chisholm had a significant impact on anti-poverty policy and educational reform. In 1971, she was a founding member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Women’s Political Caucus.

In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's nomination.

In Texas Sissy Farenthold's campaign launched a reform agenda for the governor in 1972.  This campaign elevated her national profile, and a few months later, she was tapped by women’s groups to run for the vice-presidential nomination at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida.

Farenthold placed second in the vote for the vice-presidential nomination, which was won by Missouri Sen. Thomas Eagleton. She was the first woman to be seriously considered as a candidate for the position