The exhibition commemorates the centennial birth of Shirley Chisholm, a groundbreaking politician and New Yorker.
The world had never witnessed anything like it - a Black woman announcing her run for President of the United States on a major party ticket.A visionary in every sense of the word, Chisholm wasn't afraid to stir people up."I think what gravitates people to Chisholm more than anything else if her integrity and her ability as she would say, to tell it like it really is," Zinga Fraser said.
Dr. Zinga Fraser is the Co-Curator of a new first-of-its-kind tribute to Shirley Chisholm at the Museum of the City of New York.uses her early years in Brooklyn and Barbados as a jumping-off point to what would be a long, history-making political career. "She seems so exceptional, so intelligent, such a great speaker, so communicative but that she's also so accessible, that we shouldn't make her so exceptional," Sarah Seidman, co-curator, said.Born November 30th 1924 in Brooklyn, she went to high school in Bed-Sty and graduated from Brooklyn College.In 1968, Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to Congress and 4 years later launched that run for the white house.
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