Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005) activist, educator, politician and author was born in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of four girls. She lived in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn with her factory worker father, Charles (originally from British Guyana) and her seamstress and domestic worker mom, Ruby Seale (who came from Barbados). Between 1927 and 1934, Chisholm was sent to live with her grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church, Barbados. Chisholm attended local school, received her B.A. in sociology at Brooklyn College and earned an M.A. in early childhood education from Columbia University (1952).
At Brooklyn College, one of Shirley's professors, blind science professor Louis Warsoff, "became interested in me...I loved formal debating. Once Prof. Warsoff said You ought to go into politics." Her response, "Proffy, I'm black and I'm a woman." Since blacks were not welcome in social clubs, she formed a sorority just for black women and named it Ipothia ("In pursuit of the highest in all"). From 1953-1959, Chisholm was director of the Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center and from 1959-1964, she was educational consultant for the Division of Day Care in New York City. Chisholm was active in the day care division of the city's Bureau of Child Welfare as well as the Bedford-Stuyvesant Political League and League of Women Voters.
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