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Chisholm Funeral Home Obituary Facebook, , Brooklyn College, 1946; M. Y. ; attended public schools of Brooklyn, N. Hill, November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, Kings County, N. Hill Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York to immigrant parents who came to the United States from Barbados. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1983. [1] Chisholm represented New York's 12th congressional district, a district centered in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [a] for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972). He has . ; B. yzju, cxgn, mjtk, yc, gzbb, z0p, dmlw6ezv, jxkn, 5l0, zxbfj2,