"There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price."
Shirley Chisholm
11/30/1924 : 1/1/05
11/30/1924 : 1/1/05
American politician, the first black American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
Shirley St. Hill was the daughter of immigrants; her father was from British Guiana (now Guyana) and her mother from Barbados. She grew up in Barbados and in her native Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Brooklyn College (B.A., 1946).
While teaching nursery school and serving as director of the Friends Day Nursery in Brooklyn, she studied elementary education at Columbia University (M.A., 1952) and married Conrad Q. Chisholm in 1949 (divorced 1977).
An education consultant for New York City's day-care division, she was also active with community and political groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and her district's Unity Democratic Club.
In 196468 she represented her Brooklyn district in the New York state legislature.In 1968 Chisholm was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating the civil rights leader James Farmer. In Congress she quickly became known as a strong liberal who opposed weapons development and the war in Vietnam and favored full-employment proposals.
As a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 1972, she won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race.Chisholm, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, supported the Equal Rights Amendment and legalized abortions throughout her congressional career, which lasted from 1969 to 1983.
She wrote the autobiographical works Unbought and Unbossed (1970) and The Good Fight (1973).After her retirement from Congress, Chisholm remained active on the lecture circuit. She held the position of Purington Professor at Mount Holyoke College (198387) and was a visiting scholar at Spelman College (1985).
More links to the story
Shirley Chisholm bio
http://nh.essortment.com/shirleychisholm_ruol.htm
NPR with audio
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4256255
LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-010305chisholm_lat,0,5038544.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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