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NY1 story on the Shirley A. Chisholm State Office Building in Fort Greene

State Building Renamed To Honor Shirley Chisholm

New York One News, October 5, 2010

Five years after her death, a state building in Fort Greene, Brooklyn is named in honor of Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African-American woman elected to Congress.

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