Discover the inspiring story of the first black woman elected to
Congress and to run for president in this picture book biography from a
Newbery Honor-winning author and a Coretta Scott King-John Steptoe New
Talent Award-winning illustrator.
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.