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Oil on canvas, Kadir Nelson, 2008, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
CHISHOLM, Shirley Anita, a Representative from New York; born Shirley Anita St. Hill,
November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; first black woman elected
to Congress; attended public schools of Brooklyn, N.Y.; B.A., Brooklyn College,
1946; M.A., Columbia University, 1952; nursery school teacher, 1946-1953;
director, Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center, New York City, 1953-1959;
educational consultant, Division of Day Care, New York City, 1959-1964;
assemblywoman, New York State Legislature, 1964-1968; elected as a Democrat to
the Ninety-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January
3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in
1982; died on January 1, 2005, in Ormond Beach, Fla.; interment in Forest Lawn
Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.
BibliographyChisholm, Shirley.
The Good Fight. New York: Harper & Row, 1973; Shirley
Anita Chisholm in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008.
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