Shirley Chisholm Day: Honoring the First Black Woman in Congress and Her Legacy.
(ThyBlackMan.com) November 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York, and it’s about time New York the nation, and indeed the world celebrates this Black woman, the first to be elected to Congress in 1969, just five years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman to run for President in 1972. Imagine the racism and sexism she encountered. But it didn’t stop […]