Tameka Fryer Brown
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Stirring free verse chronicles Shirley Chisholm's fight for fairness and change on her journey to becoming the first Black woman ever elected to Congress and, in 1972, the first woman to seriously run for president"--
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Shirley Chisholm was a natural-born fighter. She didn't like to be bossed and she wanted things to be fair.
Brooklyn-born Shirley Chisholm was smart and ambitious. She poured her energy into whatever she did-from teaching young children to becoming Brooklyn's first Black assemblywoman. Not afraid to blaze a trail, she became the first Black woman elected to Congress and the first woman to seriously run for US president. With a vision of liberty...