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Shirley Chisholm
1924-2005
Biography
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (b. November 30, 1924), American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman representing New York District 12 from 1969-1983. In 1968 she was elected to Congress, becoming the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress in United States History.
Chisholm was born and raised in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. She graduated from Brooklyn's public school and then earned a Bachelor of the Arts degree from Brooklyn College in 1949. While working as a teacher she earned a Masters from Columbia University. From 1953-1959 she was the director for Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center and from 1959-1964 she was an educational consultant for Division of Day Care.

In 1964 she ran and was elected to the New York State Legislature. She ran as the Democratic Party candidate for New York's 12th district U.S House in 1968. She defeated the Republican candidate, James Farmer, to become the first African-American woman elected to Congress.

Chisolm joined the Congressional Black Caucus in 1969, as one of its founding members. In 1972 Chisholm made a bid for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination, and received 151 delegate votes, but ultimately lost the nomination to South Dakota Senator George McGovern. Throughout her tenure in congress Chisholm would work to improve opportunities for the inner city residents. She was a vocal opponent to the draft. She supported increases in spending on education, health care, and other social services and reductions in military spending. She announced her retirement from government in 1982 and was replaced by a fellow Democrat in 1983.

Shirley Chisholm Quotes
Chisholm has authored two books, Unbought and Unbossed (1970) and The Good Fight (1973). In 1993 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. 
Shirley Chisholm 

In the end antiblack, antifemale, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing - antihumanism. 
Shirley Chisholm 

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. 
Shirley Chisholm 

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black. 
Shirley Chisholm 

One distressing thing is the way men react to women who assert their equality: their ultimate weapon is to call them unfeminine. They think she is anti-male; they even whisper that she's probably a lesbian. 
Shirley Chisholm 

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth. 
Shirley Chisholm 

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. 
Shirley Chisholm 

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. 
Shirley Chisholm 

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 

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. 
Shirley Chisholm