Shirley Chisholm was ‘Unbought and Unbossed’ as Congress’ First Black Woman
Shirley Anita Chisholm is best known as the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968, representing New York’s 12th congressional district. She served for seven terms, and in the process ran for the 1972 Democratic nomination for the presidency, becoming the first major-party Black candidate to make a bid for the U.S. presidency…