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Shirley Chisholm was the first African American woman elected to Congress, winning her seat in 1968 despite what she described as the "double drawback of being female and having skin darkened by melanin."¹ Her campaign slogan was, "Fighting Shirley Chisholm - Unbought and Unbossed." It was a credo she stuck to throughout 14 years in Congress and in the 1972 presidential campaign, when she became the first black woman to seek a major party nomination for the White House.

Born in Brooklyn, Shirley Anita St.

Hill was the oldest of four girls whose parents had emigrated from the West Indies.

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Shirley Anita Chisholm was an American politician who, in , became the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress.

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At the age of 3 she was sent to Barbados to be raised by her grandmother on the family farm. She was educated in the island's British-style school system and picked up traces of a British West-Indian accent that would flavor her speech as an adult.

At age 10, Shirley St. Hill rejoined her parents in Brooklyn. Her mother was a seamstress and domestic worker; her father was a bak