"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." Shirley Chisolm (1924-2005)
The first African-American woman elected to Congress (1968), and the first woman and African American to campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination (1972), her slogan "Unbossed and Unbought."  Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom In 2015.
 
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