SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

Photograph. About Fine. A 4-7/8" x 6-7/8" black-and-white photograph of the congresswoman INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Ernie/aim high!/Shirley Chisholm/7-11-95." In 1968 Chisholm became the first black woman to be elected to the United States Congress, and in 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.