![]() ![]() Acrylic and mixed media collage art by Harrison has a multilayered, folk art sensibility, featuring textures, angles, and expressive figures of differing skin tones. Employing an italicized refrain of others' judgments throughout Chisholm's life, Williams relays the various challenges and achievements Chisholm faced at each stage of her life. Williams' text is rather simplistic, straightforward, and informative. ![]() In the 1972 United States presidential election, she became the first African-American candidate to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. ![]() In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, representing New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered on Bedford-Stuyvesant, for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Hill) was an American politician, educator, and author. ![]() Hill was all the things a proper little girl was not: spirited, opinionated, and determined to get her way. Williams and illustrated by April Harrison. Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress is a children's picture book written by Alicia D. ![]()
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