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Not Done Yet: Shirley Chisholm's Fight for Change
Tameka Fryer Brown
Illustrator: Nina Crews
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Millbrook Press/Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-72842-008-0
Keywords: African American women legislators, women presidential candidates, African American presidential candidates, United States Congress, House of Representatives.
Chisholm, a teacher from Brooklyn, became the first Black woman in Congress and ran for president in 1972. Free verse. Evocative digital collage illustrations. Time line, bibliography.