She focused on expanding food stamp programs and she helped start ... “As a native New Yorker, Shirley Chisholm dedicated ...

Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected ... program and expansion of the food stamp program. The movie shows so many people who worked with Chisholm through her presidential campaign ...

Shirley Chisholm championed the needs of low-income ... Chisholm would work with Bob Dole to expand the food stamp program. She also played a pivotal role in developing the special supplemental ...

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was born in Brooklyn in 1924 ... During her time in Congress, she worked on expanding food stamp program, and helped create the WIC program. She became a founding ...

No one has fought more in Congress to keep alive Shirley Chisholm’s legacy ... establishing a tribute U.S. postal stamp, and having a portrait of Chisholm hung in the walls of Congress.

Vice President Harris said she “proudly” and “humbly” signed the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold ... create a U.S. postal stamp in tribute to her, and a resolution honoring her ...

and found a way to use her position to expand the food stamp program. The problem is that “Shirley” is interested less in what Chisholm actually did than in what she represented, as a Black ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was ... is making significant progress on the Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The $141 million, 74,000 ...

NEW YORK-- Shirley Chisholm, New York's pioneering congresswoman from Brooklyn, was honored Saturday on what would have been her 100th birthday. Nov. 30 is Shirley Chisholm Day in New York City ...

New York City marked the inaugural Shirley Chisholm Day on Saturday – honoring the life and legacy of the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress on what would have been her ...