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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]
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 ...
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 ...
Pressley during the 116th Congress. Pressley is the first black woman elected to represent Massachusetts in Congress. [51] With the November election victory of Jahana Hayes in Connecticut's 5th congressional district, [52] they became the first women of color to be elected to Congress from New England. [53] [54]
Along with being the first Black woman to be elected to Congress in Virginia, McClellan in 2010 was the first Virginia delegate to serve in a legislative session while pregnant and to give birth ...
Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first African-American U.S. senator from the Democratic Party and the first female U.S. senator from Illinois. In January 2023, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a member and chair of the board of directors for the United States African ...