Shirley Chisholm, Catalyst of Change, Progressive Bad Ass

“Apparently all they know here in Washington about Brooklyn is that a tree grew there.”

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Before there was Hillary or Liz or Kamala, there was Congresswoman, civil rights activist, social reformer, and educator Shirley Chisholm. She broke through the formidable racial and gender barriers of the 1960s and 1970s and made it look easy.