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1. Shirley Chisholm was a trailblazing American politician who made history as the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress in 1968
2. The first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties in 1972.
3. She was also a co-founder of the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971 and an outspoken advocate for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
4. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents from Guyana and Barbados, and spent part of her childhood in Barbados.
5. She graduated from Brooklyn College and Columbia University and worked as a teacher and a consultant before entering politics. Her motto and title of her autobiography was Unbought and Unbossed.