State Building Renamed To Honor Shirley Chisholm
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Five years after her death, a state building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is named in honor of Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African-American woman elected to Congress.
Chisholm served seven terms, crusading for education reform and urban investment.
In 1972, she became the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Chisholm died in 2005 at the age of 80.