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Chisholm, Shirley (1924–2005)| US Democrat representative and social activist. The first black American woman elected to Congress, in 1969, she served until 1983. In 1982 she ran for the Democratic nomination for president. She was a champion of minority education and employment opportunities. |
| Although born in Brooklyn, New York City, the child of an immigrant from British Guiana (now Guyana), she spent her childhood in Barbados. A specialist in early-childhood education, she worked at the Mount Calvary Child Care Center 1946–52, before running her own nursery school. She later became director to the city of New York on day-care facilities. In Congress she campaigned successfully for the extension of employment protection to domestic workers, and fought to combat sexism and racism. Her autobiography, Unbought and Unbossed, was published in 1970 and The Good Fight in 1973. She was a member of staff at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts 1983–87. |
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No references found | Standing at the podium during the awards ceremony, Kerwood told the group, "When I was living on the streets of Philadelphia, living as a prostitute, what got me by was going to the library and reading about extraordinary women like Shirley Chisholm," the first African-American elected to Congress and Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Johnson's contributions to the journalism world also include serving on the founding advisory board of BLACK ENTERPRISE along with the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, then Sen. 95 Paperback HQ1391 Comparing media treatment of the US presidential runs of Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole, and Coral Moseley Braun, Falk (communications, Johns Hopkins U. |
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