![]() ![]() Williams imbues her account of Shirley Chisholm’s life with the voice of an oral storyteller, punctuating it with emphatic declarative statements that act as a refrain. ![]() Three years later, Shirley makes history as the first Black woman elected to Congress. ![]() She faces backlash for being a woman in politics, but Shirley remains undaunted. When a seat opens up in the New York State Assembly, Shirley runs for it and wins. She marries Conrad Chisholm and keeps up her activism. Shirley becomes active in her community and frequently speaks up for others. After six years the family is reunited in New York, where, nightly, Shirley listens to her father and his friends discuss politics, especially matters regarding Black people and women in America. This picture-book biography of Shirley Chisholm opens with her early life in Brooklyn, New York, right before her immigrant parents send her and her younger sisters to live with their grandmother in Barbados. Hill was all the things a proper little girl was not: spirited, opinionated, and determined to get her way. ![]()
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