Shirley chisholm life biography of mother

Biography of Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Anita St. Hill was born on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were immigrants, with her father Charles Christopher St.

Hill coming from British Guiana in April 1923, and her mother Ruby Seale being born in Barbados and living in the USA since March 1921.

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When Shirley was three years old, her parents sent her to Barbados to live with her maternal grandparents, and she only returned home after seven years. In Barbados, she received her primary education at an excellent British school with strict standards.

In 1946, Shirley earned a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College and in 1952, she graduated from Columbia University, obtaining a master's degree with a specialization in elementary education.

From 1953 to 1959, Chisholm served as the director of the Hamilton-Madison Child Care Center, and then worked as an education con Shirley Chisholm - Wikipedia WUJA