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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]
The first African-American woman to serve as a representative was Shirley Chisholm from New York's 12th congressional district in 1969 during the Civil Rights Movement. Many African-American members of the House of Representatives serve majority-minority districts. [4]
Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. [11] Black people were a majority of the population in many congressional districts across the South. In 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first directly elected black member of Congress to be seated. [12]
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., stands beside a portrait of her friend and mentor, Shirley Chisolm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.
Shirley Chisholm became a household name after becoming the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Chisholm served seven terms in ...
In 2021, as stated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, 27 Black women will serve in the 117th Congress, doubling the number of Black women to serve in 2011. [36] In 2014, Mia Love was the first black woman to be elected to Congress for the Republican Party. [37]
Four years later, Chisholm became the first Black woman to win a seat in Congress. She represented New York’s 12th Congressional District for seven terms, from 1969 to 1983, according to the ...
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, [2] the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [3] [4] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House ...