Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm visits the Fulton St. festival, 1972 ca. 2020.002.018.
Khalil Abdulkhabir photographs of the Dar-ul-Islam movement, 2020.002.
Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History.
In 1972, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm strolled the tables lining Fulton Street, stopping to chat with vendors at the bustling outdoor festival in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn. Just four years earlier, in 1968, Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) became the first Black woman elected to the US Congress,…