Viola Davis to Play First <br />Black Congresswoman <br />in New Biopic The 43-year-old actress <br />will play the title role in <br />‘The Fighting Shirley Chisholm.' The film is being produced <br />for Amazon by JuVee. Viola Davis, via 'The Hollywood Reporter' Chisholm was also the <br />first woman of any race <br />to run for president <br />from a major political party. She ran as a Democrat. The movie will tell Chisholm's <br />story as she became a civil rights <br />pioneer throughout the 1960s and '70s.
