Shirley Chisholm had a spirit unlike any other. She was a woman of many firsts: the first Black woman to be elected into Congress and the first Black woman to run for president. Nicknamed “Fighting ...
Tolliver's book A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics unpacks how a groundbreaking fundraiser by Chisholm and Carroll in 1972 brought together ...