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Shirley Chisholm
Born: November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New YorkGender: Female
Occupation/Job: House of Representatives (1969-1983), United States
Date of Death: January 1, 2005, in Ormond Beach, Florida)
Family: Father- Charles St. Hill
Mother- Rudy Seale
Sisters- Odessa and Muriel.
Education: graduated from Brooklyn College (B.A., 1946), she studied elementary education at Columbia University (M.A., 1951)
Parents were immigrants, her father was from British Guiana (now Guyana), and her mother was from Barbados.
first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
Chisholm defeated the heavily favored James Farmer
she won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race.
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.
In 1993 she was invited by Pres. Bill Clinton to serve as ambassador to Jamaica but declined because of poor health.
Conrad Chisholm
Arthur Hardwick Jr
Ruby Seale
Charles St. Hill
Odessa
Muriel
Martin Luther King
Jesse Owens
John F. Kennedy
Malcom X
Rosa Parks
Claudette Colvin
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