OT: Shirley Chisholm dead at age 80

[Young Drachma]

Link (http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/obit.chisholm.ap/index.html)
No, she might not be well-known by today's standards, but..read the obit and you can't help but be impressed.

I only knew who she was, because of elementary school.

RIP.

[Glengoyne]

One of the old Lefties that whose positions and person I actually respected. I knew she was a Representative, but I had no idea that she ran for President in '72.

[sterlingice]

I didn't know that until I had read it today either, but I think I can be excused from that since I wasn't alive at the time ;)

SI