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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New York CHISHOLM, Shirley Anita(1924—2005)CHISHOLM, Shirley Anita, a Representative from New York; born Shirley Anita St. Hill, November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; first black woman elected to Congress; attended public schools of Brooklyn, N.Y.; B.A., Brooklyn College, 1946; M.A., Columbia University, 1952; nursery school teacher, 1946-1953; director, Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center, New York City, 1953-1959; educational consultant, Division of Day Care, New York City, 1959-1964; assemblywoman, New York State Legislature, 1964-1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1983); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; died on January 1, 2005, in Ormond Beach, Fla.; interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y. Anderson, Delores Joan. “Black Women and Politics: Intersectionality of Race and Gender and the Transformative Production of Knowledge in Political Science.” Ph.D. diss., The Union Institute, 2000. Barnwell, Cherron Annette. “The Dialogics of Self in the Autobiographies of African-American Public Women: Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm, Angela Davis and Anita Hill.” Ph.D. diss., Howard University, 2002. Brownmiller, Susan. Shirley Chisholm. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. Canas, Kathryn Anne. “Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm, and Lani Guinier: Crafting Identification Through the Rhetorical Interbraiding of Value.” Ph.D. diss., The University of Utah, 2002. Chisholm, Shirley. The Good Fight. New York: Harper & Row, 1973. ———. Unbought and Unbossed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. Duffy, Susan, comp. Shirley Chisholm: A Bibliography of Writings by and About Her . Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988. Falk, Erika A. “Women, Press, and the Presidency.” Ph.D., diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2001. Gallagher, Julie A. “Women of Action, In Action: The New Politics of Black Women in New York City, 1944-1972.” Ph.D. diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003. Haskins, James. Fighting Shirley Chisholm . Los Angeles: Dutton Books, 1975. Hicks, Nancy. The Honorable Shirley Chisholm: Congresswoman From Brooklyn. New York: Lion Books, 1971. Marshall-White, Eleanor. Women: Catalysts For Change; Interpretive Biographies of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Nancy Landon Kassebaum. New York: Vantage Press, 1991. Scheader, Catherine. Shirley Chisholm: Teacher and Congresswoman . Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1990. ”Shirley Anita Chisholm” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989 . Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. “Shirley Anita Chisholm” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. Williamson, Dorothy Kay. “Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Modern Black American Spokepersons on the Women’s Liberation Movement.” Ph.D., diss., The Ohio State University, 1980. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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