Chisholm died in 2005 at 80, NBC News reported ... In January 2018, New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced Shirley Chisholm State Park in her honor. The park, which opened to the public on ...

Chisholm was born Shirley Anita St. Hill on November 30 ... not ready for a woman candidate.” She died in 2005 at the age of 80 in her Florida home. Saturday would have been her 100th birthday.

She was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and was 80 when she died in 2005. "Shirley Chisholm was unbought and unbossed. She had a Brooklyn spirit. She was a fighter at all times," U.S. House Minority ...

President Joe Biden signed the Shirley Chisholm Congressional Gold Medal Act on Thursday, posthumously honoring Chisholm, who died in 2005, with Congress’s highest award for her distinguished ...

Called “Changing the Face of Democracy: Shirley Chisholm at 100,” the exhibit showcases the native Brooklynite’s life and political legacy until her death in 2005 at 80. It opened in July ...

In 1970, over one thousand women died every year from botched illegal ... The groundwork laid by Shirley Chisholm and her generation of diverse feminists might just be solid enough for this ...

Laphonza Butler, the California Democrat who was appointed temporarily to the seat after the death of long-serving ... to her mentor and friend Shirley Chisholm, another trailblazer — the ...

Chisholm, who died in 2005 at 80 ... 25th January 1972: US Representative Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn announces her entry for Democratic nomination for the presidency, at the Concord Baptist ...

Shirley Chisholm will be honored with the highest ... on Dec. 12 to honor the first Black congresswoman, Chisholm, who died in 2005. She was also the first Black woman to run for President.

Bipartisan legislation to honor the late Shirley Chisholm, the nation’s first Black congresswoman, became law last week, as the 118th Congress winds down with a final flurry of bills. President ...