Directory of Chisholm, Shirley Resources

Information sites related to the first African-American woman to be elected to Congress.

Resources in This Category

American Rhetoric: Shirley Chisholm

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/shirleychisholmequalrights.htm
Full text of speech for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress - Shirley Anita Chisholm

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000371
Short biography along with political party, years of service in Congress and bibliography.
National Leadership Visionary Project: Shirley Chisholm

http://www.visionaryproject.org/chisholmshirley/
Includes biography and oral history archives.
PBS - Chisholm '72

http://www.pbs.org/pov/chisholm/
Offers video highlight of her presidential run of 1972.
Shirley Chisholm

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/congress/p/shirleychisholm.htm
A biography of black Congresswoman from New York, who worked for women's and minority rights.
Shirley Chisholm Commemoration Day

http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/spotlite/news/index.php?link=112005
Brooklyn College event information.
Shirley Chisholm, 'Unbossed' Pioneer in Congress, Is Dead at 80

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/03/obituaries/03chisholm.html?_r=1&ex=1171602000&en=f9a19f37f9ec3a55&ei=5070
New York Times obituary.
The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism

http://chisholmproject.com/
Repository of women’s grassroots social activism in Brooklyn since 1945 and ongoing in the present. Includes project information and history of former congresswoman.

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