Her voice in congress is greatly missed. IMHO, she would have made a great president. Today, 1972, Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to congress, opened her historic campaign for U.S. President in Brooklyn, New York. I proudly voted for her here in the Wisconsin primary. Chisolm was the oldest of four daughters of a factory laborer from Guyana and a seamstress from Barbados. She was an advocate of civil rights and women’s rights, and the minimum family income wage. She opposed wiretapping, domestic spying, and the Vietnam War. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who was a young activist in 1972, stated the following on the importance of Chisolm’s campaign: “Congresswoman Chisholm was a trailblazer, a champion of the poor and marginalized, and a role model to me and so many other women in politics, especially Black women.”