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The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism is a repository of women’s grassroots social activism in Brooklyn since 1945 and ongoing in the present. Shirley Chisholm was the first African American women elected to Congress and the first African American and the first women to mount a serious campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for the Presidency.
In the spirit of Chisholm’s legacy as a path breaking community and political activist, this website contains digitized materials about Chisholm’s life and legacy as well as materials representing the wide range of women’s activism throughout the borough of Brooklyn. The archive consists of documents and other materials, including oral histories, from people who knew or worked with Chisholm, as well as from the extraordinary diversity of women’s activism in Brooklyn since 1945.
View a Message from Barbara Winslow,
The Founder and Project Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project
