Shirley Chisholm dared : the story of the first Black woman in Congress
2021
Book
"Meet Shirley, a little girl who asks way too many questions! After spending her early years on her grandparents' farm in Barbados, she returns home to Brooklyn and immediately makes herself known. Shirley kicks butt in school; she breaks her mother's curfew; she plays jazz piano instead of classical. And as a young adult, she fights against the injustice she sees around her, against women and black people. Soon she is running for state assembly ... and winning in a landslide. Three years later, she is on the campaign trail again, as the first black woman to run for Congress. Her slogan? "Fighting Shirley Chisholm--Unbought and Unbossed!" Does she win? You bet she does."
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780593123683
- 0593123689
Edition: First edition.
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
Target Audience Note:
- 004-008.
- Grades K-1.
LCCN: 2020011950
Control Number: 3182584
Publisher: New York : Anne Schwartz Books, [2021]Subjects:
- African American legislators -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- African American women legislators -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- African American women teachers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005 -- Juvenile literature.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Teachers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- United States. Congress. House -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Women legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Women presidential candidates -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- Women teachers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Genre: Biographies.
Other Authors: Harrison, April, illustrator.