Questions about the Project
1) Who was Shirley Chisholm?
Born in the U.S. of immigrant parents, (November 30, 1924-January 1, 2005), she lived in the Caribbean as a child, returned to Brooklyn as a teenager, and graduated in 1946 from Brooklyn College. Read More...
2) What is the project about?
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. Read More...
3) What's in the archive?
The collection consists of oral history interviews from people who knew and worked with Chisholm. The Shola Lynch Collection, which is the memorabilia and documents Shola Lynch, the acclaimed film director of the 2004 award-winning documentary Chisholm ’72 Unbought and Unbossed collected while making her film. Read More...
4) How can I use the archive?
The Shirley Chisholm Project Collections are all housed in the Archives and Special Collections division of the Brooklyn College library which is open Monday thru Friday from 9AM-5PM. For more information on visiting the archive contact them at (718) 951-5346 or visit the website for the Archives and Special Collection Division for more information.
5) Tell me about your ideas for K-12 curriculum.
The project for curriculum design, which is dedicated in loving memory to our colleague Dr, Marion Neville Lynch, who taught in the Brooklyn College School of education and who was a very early supporter of the project. Our teachers and teaching pages will take about a year and a half to plan and execute. Read More...
6) How did the Project come about?
The idea for an interactive oral history project developed during Barbara Winslow’s tenure as the coordinator of the Brooklyn College Women’s Studies Program. Along with a few colleagues, she was assigned the responsibility of developing a five year academic program including resurrecting the Center for Research on Women. It was obvious to all that Chisholm, a very distinguished alumni, feminist, and first African American woman elected to Congress, should have this center named after her.
7) Who is the project Coordinator?
Barbara Winslow is an Associate Professor in the School of Education and the Women's Studies Program at Brooklyn College. She served as the Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program from 2001-2009. Read More...
8) I knew Chisholm and/or I have some memorabilia
Please contact us so we can provide more information about donating memorabilia to the project.
9) I want stay informed on what the project is doing
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10) How can I financially donate to the project?
I There are two ways to finically support the project, online and by mail. Read More...
