Buffalo History Museum Podcast: Shirley Chisholm: Unbought and Unbossed
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and the first black woman to run for President, grew up in Brooklyn and represented her home neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in the House of Representatives. But after she retired from Congress, she and her husband moved to Buffalo, and she was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, where a new statue in her honor is soon to be unveiled.
