Editing Shirley Chisholm (section)

===Initial election===
{{Quote box|quote="Ladies and gentlemen, this is fighting Shirley Chisholm coming through."|source=—Announcement made from a sound truck that drove up to housing projects in Brooklyn during her 1968 campaign.<ref name="nyt-2019-belongs"/>|width=27%|align=right|style=padding:8px;}}

In 1968, Chisholm ran for the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[New York's 12th congressional district]], which, as part of a court-mandated reapportionment plan, had been significantly redrawn to focus on Bedford–Stuyvesant and was thus expected to result in Brooklyn's first black member of Congress.<ref name="nyt022668">{{Cite news | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/26/77173325.pdf | title=3 Negroes Weigh House Race in New Brooklyn 12th District | first=Earl | last=Caldwell | newspaper=The New York Times | date=February 26, 1968 | page=29 | access-date=June 15, 2018 | archive-date=December 7, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207044436/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/02/26/77173325.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false | url-status=live }}</ref> ([[Adam Clayton Powell Jr.]] had, in 1945, become the first black member of Congress from New York City as a whole.) As a result of the redrawing, the white incumbent in the former 12th, Representative [[Edna F. Kelly]], sought reelection in a different district.<ref name="nyt061968"/> Chisholm announced her candidacy around January 1968 and established some early organizational support.<ref name="nyt022668"/> Her campaign slogan was "Unbought and unbossed".<ref name="nyt-first"/><ref>Landers, Jackson, ''[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unbought-and-unbossed-when-black-woman-ran-for-the-white-house-180958699/ 'Unbought And Unbossed': When a Black Woman Ran for the White House] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810163558/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/unbought-and-unbossed-when-black-woman-ran-for-the-white-house-180958699/ |date=August 10, 2020 }}'',  Smithsonian Magazine, April 25, 2016</ref> In the June 18 Democratic primary, Chisholm defeated two other black opponents, State Senator William S. Thompson and labor official Dollie Robertson.<ref name="nyt061968">{{Cite news | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/19/77178582.pdf | title=Seymour and Cellar Win House Contests | first=Sydney H. | last=Schanberg | author-link=Sydney Schanberg | newspaper=The New York Times | date=June 19, 1968 | pages=1, 31 | access-date=June 15, 2018 | archive-date=December 7, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207044359/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/06/19/77178582.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false | url-status=live }}</ref> In the general election, she staged an upset victory<ref name="fls-72"/> over [[James Farmer]], the former director of the [[Congress of Racial Equality]], who was running as a [[Liberal Party of New York|Liberal Party]] candidate with Republican support, winning by an approximately two-to-one margin.<ref name="nyt-first"/> Chisholm thereby became the first black woman elected to Congress,<ref name="nyt-first">{{Cite news | url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/11/06/91291879.pdf | title=Mrs. Chisholm Defeats Farmer, Is First Negro Woman in House | first=Richard L. | last=Madden | newspaper=The New York Times | date=November 6, 1968 | pages=1, 25}}</ref> and she was the only woman in the first-year class that year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CHISHOLM,-Shirley-Anita-(C000371)/|title=CHISHOLM, Shirley Anita {{!}} United States House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|website=history.house.gov|language=en|access-date=February 23, 2020|archive-date=March 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301001209/https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CHISHOLM,-Shirley-Anita-(C000371)/|url-status=live}}</ref>