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NY1 story on Barbara Winslow and Brooklyn College’s Women’s Studies Program

Women Helping Women: Advocate’s Legacy Inspire Collegiate Program in Brooklyn

Jeanine Ramirez, New York One News, March 23, 2010

Barbara Winslow is the founder and director of the Shirley Chisholm Project at Brooklyn College. She started it five years ago to preserve the legacy of Chisholm who graduated from the college and went on to become the first black woman to serve in Congress. She was also the first to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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