Shirley Chisholm
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
The Dick Cavett Show
Character: Self - Guest
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks....
Explained
Character: Self (archive footage)
This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture....
History 101
Character: Self (archive footage)
Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries....
The Sixties
Character: Self
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today....
Movie Credits
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed
Character: Herself
In 1968, Shirley Chisholm becomes the first black woman elected to Congress. In 1972, she becomes the first black woman to run for president. Shunned by the political establishment, she's supported by a motley crew of blacks, feminists, and young voters. Their campaign-trail adventures are frenzied, fierce and fundamentally right on!...
Adam Clayton Powell
Character: Herself
Handsome, passionate, and an electrifying speaker, Adam Clayton Powell rose from being the son of a Harlem preacher to being a powerful 12-term Congressman--but his many accomplishments have been forgotten in the wake of the self-indulgence, arrogance, and demagoguery that dominated Powell's later years....
Shirley Chisholm for President
Character: Herself
About the election campaign of the first female member of the US Congress....