(POLITICS) Shirley Chisholm shortly after her election as th

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(POLITICS.) Shirley Chisholm shortly after her election as the first Black woman in Congress. Wire photograph, 8 x 11 inches, with inked date stamp and typescript caption on verso, and Associated Press caption label tipped to verso; minor wear including 1½-inch crease in lower left corner. Brooklyn, NY, 20 December 1968

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Shirley Chisholm beat James Farmer to win election to the United States Congress in November 1968. Here she is shown (right) touring her district, two weeks before being sworn into office on 3 January 1969. With her is Lucille Mason Rose (left), head of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Neighborhood Manpower Service Center; Rose soon became head of the entire citywide Manpower and Career Development Agency. The photo was taken to accompany a 5 January Associated Press story on Chisholm's ascent. The caption label explains that "Mrs. Chisholm would like to re-vamp the entire Poverty Program, to provide more real job training--and to get to the heart of Negro problems."