Shirley Chisholm declares campaign for president, 1972

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black candidate to run for a major-party nomination for president and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Chisholm, also the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress, represented Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn for seven terms, from 1969 to 1983. WNYC-TV Moving Image collection, NYC Municipal Archives.