Shirley Chisholm,1927 presidential candidate and the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress died January 1, 2005. Her autobiography, Unbought and Unbossed (Houghton Mifflin, 1970) outlines her political history.
Archival materials related to Shirley Chisholm's life are located at Howard University, Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection; Columbia University; Rutgers University; the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
