It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things. Today it's thing number 42, which is actually a person.

It's 100 years of Shirley Chisholm, the former Brooklyn Congresswoman, first ever black woman in Congress, and 1972 Presidential Hopeful, was born 100 years ago this week.

November 30th, 1924, just a few months after WNYC was born.

52 years before Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to throw her hat into the ring for that nomination when she was 48.

I would run realizing all of the controversies that would swirl about my head.

But when you are a catalyst for change in any society, you have to be prepared.

That from a presidential campaign speech at UCLA in 1972, Shirley Chisholm, the politician,

who was also a public intellectual.

I'm a woman that holds three college degrees and ten points for a PhD. I'm not here to boast to you,

but I'm just a little bit sick and tired of people not looking at me in terms of

my humanity and my capabilities.

That was also from that UCLA campaign speech.

We'll hear more archive tape of Shirley Chisholm in this 100-year segment as we go.

And we have, I think, the perfect guest to guide us through these clips of Shirley Chisholm in

her own words. It's Zinga Fraser, author of a new book of Shirley Chisholm in her own words. It's Zinga Fraser,

author of a new book called Shirley Chism in her own words, speeches and writings. Zinga

Fraser is director of the Shirley Chisholm Project at Brooklyn College and a professor of

Africana Studies and Women's and Gender Studies there.

She has also been a consultant to the new movie, Shirley, with Regina King.

Dr. Fraser, congratulations on the book, first of all, and thank you so much for joining our series, 100 Years of 100 Things. Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me. It's a pleasure. And before we get to more

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