In this Women’s History Month feature, host Tezlyn Figaro honors #ShirleyChisholm, who made history on January 21, 1969, as the first African-American woman elected to #Congress. Representing # ...

a New Yorker named Shirley Chisholm – who in 1968 had made history as the first Black woman elected to Congress – sought the Democratic nomination for president. With scant resources and ...

The center, named after the year Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress ... who became the first African-American presidential candidate to run for a major party ...

Although a small number of African-Americans hold Congressional seats before her, Chisholm is the first black woman to be elected to the body. She is also the first woman, and the first person of ...

“Shirley Chisholm grew up just steps away from Brooklyn Children’s Museum, in the very neighborhood she would later champion in Congress,” said Atiba T. Edwards, president and CEO of Brooklyn Children ...