As the first African American woman elected to Congress, and the first woman and African American to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, Shirley Chisholm was a true trailblazer who remained Unbought and Unbossed — her motto and the title of her first book — throughout her life. Shirley St. Hill Chisholm was born on November 30, 1924, […]
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