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As seen in Shirley, Chisholm became the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, representing New York’s 12th District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. During her time in the U.S. House of ...
Shirley Anita Chisholm (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ə m / CHIZ-əm; née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician who, in 1968, became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. [1]
Mrs. America dramatizes the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, and the unexpected backlash led by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.Through the eyes of the women of that era – both Schlafly and prominent second-wave feminists including Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Jill Ruckelshaus – the series explores how one of the ...
Shirley Chisholm (M.A. 1952), first African American woman elected to Congress and former US presidential candidate; Betsy Gotbaum (M.A. 1967), Public Advocate for New York City; Lee Huan (M.A.), premier of the Republic of China; Kevin Jennings (M.A. 1994), former assistant deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Education
Regina King plays Shirley Chisholm in Netflix's biopic focusing on her groundbreaking 1972 presidential run
At a glance, Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 campaign for president was the definition of quixotic. She was 47 years old; at the time, she had served only one term (starting in 1968) as the first Black ...
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, who entered in the fall of 1939, remembered that students came to Girls' High from all parts of Brooklyn because the school was so "highly regarded." In her time, the school was "all girls, about half of them were white, but the neighborhood by now was nearly all black."
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black major-party presidential candidate and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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