Subject of Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005 Description A circular metal pin-back button. The button has a yellow background with black type, aligned to the left, which reads: [Take / the ...

Object Details Manufactured by Larry Fox Assoc., American Subject of Shirley Anita Chisholm, American, 1924 - 2005 Description A yellow pinback button endorsing Shirley Chisholm for president. The ...

VP Kamala Harris honors Shirley Chisholm with historic Congressional Gold Medal bill signing The vice president's signature instructs Congress to posthumously award Chisholm, the first Black woman ...

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 ...

Shirley Chisholm passed away in 2005 at age 80, but her influence endures. As the legislation heads to President Biden’s desk for signature, her story remains a beacon of hope, inspiring ...

Shirley Chisholm (Rep. N.Y.) announcing her candidacy for the presidency in Brooklyn, New York on Jan. 25, 1972. Jim Wells / AP She was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and was 80 when she died in 2005.

Shirley Chisholm (Rep. N.Y.), left, announcing her candidacy for the presidency in Brooklyn on Jan. 25, 1972. Vice President Kamala Harris, right, at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Aug. 10.

Born to immigrant parents from Guyana and Barbados in Brooklyn, New York, Chisholm would go on to represent the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood where she grew up in both state and federal ...

Chisholm, who died in 2005 at 80, made history in 1968 as the first African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York’s 12th Congressional District.