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For this week s rise up, i want to kick off black history month with the story of a true pioneer. in a matter of months, we are likely to see the confirmation of the first black female justice to the u.s. supreme court. just last year we inaugurated our first black female vice president. but none of it, none of it, would have been possible if it wasn t for shirley chisholm. she was the first black woman elected to congress in 1968, just four years after the civil rights act of 1964 was signed into law. she immediately went to work as a tireless advocate for domestic workers, teachers, immigrants and mothers. and for that alone, she would go