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Ebony Magazine Cover Featuring Shirley Chisholm, 1969

Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York became the first African-American woman in the House when she was elected in 1968 from a newly reconfigured, majority-black district in Brooklyn, New York. Ebony magazine featured the lawmaker in an article titled, “New Faces in Congress.”

Ebony magazine, February 1969, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives

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