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=Shirley Chisholm=

==Overview== Shirley Anita St. Hill was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30th, 1924 of immigrant parents. Her father, Charles Christopher St. Hill, was born in British Guiana, and arrived in the United States via Antilla, Cuba on April 10, 1923 aboard the //S.S. Munamar// in New York City. Her mother, Ruby Seale, was born in Christ Church Barbados, and arrived in New York City aboard the //S.S. Pocone// on March 8, 1921. At age three, Chisholm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church. While in Christ Church Shirley spent a lot of time at school. In her 1970 autobiography //Unbought and Unbossed//, she wrote: "Years later I would know what an important gift my parents had given me by seeing to it that I had my early education in the strict, traditional, British-style schools of Barbados. If I speak and write easily now, that early education is the main reason." She did not return until roughly seven years later when she arrived in New York City on May 19, 1934 aboard the //S.S. Narissa//. Chisholm earned her BA from Brooklyn College in 1946 and later earned her MA from Columbia University in elementary education in 1952.

==Central Issue== In 1964, Chisholm ran for and was elected to the New York States Legislature. She proposed a bill to provide state aid to day-care centers and voted to increase funding for schools on a per-pupil basis. In 1968, she ran as the Demorcratic candidate for New York's 12th District congressional seat and was elected to the House of Representatives. Her campaign slogan was "Fighting Shirley Chisholm--Unbought and Unbossed." Defeating Republican candidate James Farmer, Chisholm became the first black woman elected to Congress. Chisholm joined the Congressional Black Caucus. in 1969 as one of its founding members. Chisholm said that during her New York legislative career, she had faced much more discrimination because she was a woman than because she was black.

In the 1972 U.S Presidential Election, she made a bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. George McGovern won the nomination in a hotly contested set of primary elections, with Chisholm campaigning in 12 states and winning 28 delegates during the primary process. Chisholm created controversy when she visited rival and ideological opposite George Wallace in the hospital soon after his shooting in May 1972, during the 1972 presidential primary campaign. Several years later, when Chisholm worked on a bill to give domestic workers the right to a minimum wage, Wallace helped gain votes of enough Southern congressmen to push the legislation through the House. She announced her retirement from Congress in 1982. Some major awards Shirley won were: in 1975, Chisholm was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Smith College, in 1993, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Shirley Chisholm on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

Conclusion
Shirley Chisholm the first Black woman elected to Congress and one of the first women to run for President, died January 1, 2005 of a stroke at her home in Florida. She was 80 years old. "I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts," she said. "That's how I'd like to be remembered." Shirley really opened a lot of doors for women and African Americans in politics.

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