Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005

LC control no.	n 50038170
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Saint Hill, Shirley Anita, 1924-2005
Associated country	United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1924-11-20
Death date	2005-01-01
Place of birth	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Place of death	Ormond Beach (Fla.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. House Brooklyn College New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Mount Holyoke College Friends in Need Nursery School (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center (Manhattan, N.Y.)
Profession or occupation	Educators Legislators Orators Presidential candidates Authors African American women politicians
Found in	Shirley Chisholm: Elect one of your own [FS] 1969. Washington Post, 2005-01-04 (Shirley Chisholm, politician, human rights advocate, d. Jan. 1, 2005, Ormond Beach, Fla., age 80; b. Shirley Anita St. Hill, Nov. 20, 1924, Brooklyn, N.Y.; married (1) Conrad Chisholm, (2) Arthur Hardwick, Jr.) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Howard Univ.) for Her Interview, 1973 May 2 (Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-; Representative (D-NY), U. S. Congress) English Wikipedia website, Mar. 26, 2013 (Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (Nov. 30, 1924-Jan. 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she became the first African-American woman elected to Congress. On Jan. 25, 1972, she became the first major-party black candidate for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination (Margaret Chase Smith had previously run for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination). She received 152 first-ballot votes at the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Born: Nov. 30, 1924, Brooklyn, New York; Died: Jan. 1, 2005 (aged 80), Ormond Beach, Florida) African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Chisholm, Shirley; Shirley St. Hill; U.S. Representative, educator, presidential candidate, orator; born 30 November 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. She graduated from Brooklyn College (1946); enrolled in master's program in early childhood education at Columbia College; was appointed director of Friends in Need Nursery School in Brooklyn (1953) and director of Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center, Manhattan (1954). She was elected to the New York State Assembly (1964); served in the House of Representatives (1969-1982) and ran for the presidency of the United States in 1972). She joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts (1983-1987); co-founded the National Political Congress of Black Wome (1984). She died 01 January 2005 in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States)
Associated language	eng