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Born November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, NY
Died January 1, 2005, in Ormond Beach, FL
Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress. She served the 12th Congressional District of Brooklyn, New York, for seven terms from 1968 until 1982. In 1972 she made an unprecedented bid for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic party. She was the founder and chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women. She was named the Purington Chair at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, a professorship that she held for four years. Her autobiography, Unbought and Unbossed, was published in 1970.