What Year
What year was Shirley born?
What is 1924?
What team did Shirley excel on during her high school career?
The Debate Team
In 1960 who did Shirley become a consultant to?
Who is the New York Division of Day Care?
What is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country?
What is an immigrant
Where was Shirley born?
Where is Brooklyn, New York
What year was Shirley elected as an Assemblywoman in the district of Brooklyn?
What is 1964
What career path did Shirley start out on?
What is a nursery school teacher?
Who is the NAACP?
Who is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What is a circumstance that makes progress or success difficult?
What is a handicap
Where did Shirley's father immigrant from?
Where is Guyana
What year did Shirley become the first black congresswoman to be elected?
What is 1968
What did Shirley feel was her "double handicap" for beginning a political career?
What is being "black and a woman"
Who is the first female black congresswoman elected?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
What is person who provides expert advice professionally?
What is a consultant
Where did Shirley's mother immigrant from?
Barbados
What year did Shirley decide to run for the Democratic nomination for the president of the United States?
What is 1972
What was Shirley's nickname while serving in Congress?
What is "Fighting Shirley"
Who encouraged Shirley to pursue a career in politics during her high school years.
Who are her teachers
What is a person or thing that works to bring about change in thinking, policy or events.
What is a catalyst
Where did Shirley go to college?
Where is Brooklyn College?
What year did Shirley retire from congress?
What is 1983
What are two political issues that Shirley cared deeply about?
What are race and gender equality
Who was the first woman to attempt to run for the US presidency?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
What does a political candidate do to attempt to win an election?
What is campaign
Where did Shirley serve as an Assemblywoman?
Where is Brooklyn