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100 years after Victoria Woodhall was the first woman to run for U.S. President.

50 years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote, although some states began to put up stumbling blocks in the way of women of color,

44 years before the first female nominee of a major political party ran for president and within a decade of Jim Crow laws being banned and voting for all female U.S. citizens was made possible,

Shirley Chisholm, a black woman from Brooklyn, ran for the U.S. presidency.

Hi, it's Susan. Beckett and I had decided to kind of divide and conquer so that we could cover a couple more women who had run for the U.S. presidency long before Hillary Clinton.

So let's talk about Shirley Chisholm.

First let me drop her into history a little bit. In 1972, in the United States, a woman could not report workplace discrimination based on being pregnant, attend U.S. military academy, or fight in combat, serve on juries, get credit cards in their name without a man to co-sign.

And in 1972, Shirley Chisholm announced her candidacy for president of the United States.

Shirley Anita St. Hill was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 30, 1924. She was the first of four daughters to Charles and Ruby St. Hill.

Charles and Ruby were both part of a wave of Caribbean immigrants who had left crop failure and famine behind, and also son and soft breezes for the United States.

Specifically, the people of Barbados were congregating in Brooklyn, New York. Now, Brooklyn has a bit of a milder temperature than most people think, but it was no Barbados.

Charles was born in British Guyana, and orphaned as a teen. He lived all over the West Indies, including Barbados.

And there, he briefly met a young teenager named Ruby Seals, but he headed to the United States for a job in 1923 and settled in Brooklyn where there was an enclaim of Barbadians.

Now, Charles had stopped school in the fifth grade, but he was well read and he was very self-educated.

Ruby's grandfather had saved money to bring Ruby from the Barbados to live in New York, and once Charles was there, they reconnected one night at a Barbadian social club.

What followed was a quick, yet formal courtship, and within a year they'd been married, and Shirley was born.

Charles was an unskilled laborer who had landed a steady job as a baker's assistant. Ruby was skilled as a seamstress, but first Shirley, then her sister Odessa,

and then her sister Muriel and rapid succession, made it impossible for Ruby to hold a city job.

She did take in some sewing, but with three toddlers to keep her busy, Mama was very, very busy, and young Shirley, she was talking very early, she was very strong-willed child, and she added to that busyness.

Ruby was busy, very busy, impossibly busy.

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