Shirley
Chisholm became the first African-American congresswoman in 1968. Four years
later, she became the first major-party black candidate to make a bid for the
U.S. presidency.
Famed U.S. congresswoman and lifelong social activist Shirley Chisholm was
born Shirley St. Hill on November 30, 1924, in a predominantly black
neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Chisholm spent part of her childhood in
Barbados with her grandmother. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1946,
she began her career as a teacher and went on to earn a master's degree in
elementary education from Columbia University.
Chisholm served as director of the Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center from
1953 to 1959, and as an educational consultant for New York City's Bureau of
Child Welfare from 1959 to 1964.
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