> PBS: African American World Reference
Find a guide to African American history, arts and culture, issues facing black America and contributions of famous African Americans including a profile of Shirley Chisholm.

> History Channel Speeches
Listen to a campaign speech for the presidency by Chisholm from 1972. In her presidential bid, the first of its kind by an African-American woman, she won 152 delegates before bowing out from the race.

> National Women's Political Caucus
Shirley Chisholm, along with more than 300 other women, founded the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 to increase the number of women in all aspects of political life – as elected and appointed officials, as judges in state and federal courts, and as delegates to national conventions.

> U.S. House of Representatives
The House of Representatives passed a resolution in 2001 celebrating the life an accomplishments of Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.