https://newsone.com/playlist/quotes-shirley-chisholm/<br /><br />On this day 52 years ago, Shirley Chisholm made history by becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress. .<br />At only 43 years old, she represented New York’s 12th Congressional District, an office she held for seven terms from 1969 to 1983.<br />In 1972, she became the first African American major-party candidate to run for president of the United States .<br />and was also the first woman to ever run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. .<br />Ch
