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Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress () and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties ().
Her motto and title of her autobiography—Unbought and Unbossed—illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities during her seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, , Chisholm was the oldest of four daughters to immigrant parents Charles St.
Hill, a factory worker from Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. She graduated from Brooklyn Girls’ High in and from Brooklyn College cum laude in , where she won prizes on the debate team. Although professors encouraged her to consider a political career, she replied that she faced a “double handicap” as both Black and female.
Initially, Chisholm worked as a nursery school teacher.
In , she married Conrad Q. Chisholm, a private
