Assistant professor Joshua Guild is a historian specializing in African-American studies. He recently completed a bio-graphical essay on Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress and - in 1972 - the first African - American to make a serious run for the presidency. Guild became interested in Chisholm five years ago, before anyone knew that Barack Obama would justify her belief that someday an African-American would become president.
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