Shirley Chisholm, known as Unbought and Unbossed, was born in Brooklyn on November 30th, 1924. She graduated from Brooklyn Girls' High School in 1942 and from Brooklyn College cum laude in 1946, then became a teacher while finishing her MA in early childhood education at Columbia University. After finishing school, she joined the Democratic Party club in Brooklyn to fight gender and racial inequality. She served in the New York State Assembly and later won a seat in Congress, where she fought for domestic workers' rights, increased funding for education and health care, maternity rights for teachers, and access to child care. In 1964, she became the first African American woman from Brooklyn to join the New York State Assembly. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. She also fought to expand the Food Stamps program and created the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. In 1972, she became the first African American major-party candidate to run for president and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
