chisholm, the portrait we did of shirley chisholm deliberately depicts a lot of what matt was talking about her, that she had a national agenda, took on an advocacy role, so this portrait of her is in a few bays a traditional congressional portrait. it highlights the figure, the subject, who is there, but the capitol is present, too, so you know where she is, but it very much makes the capitol smaller than her stature nationally. she is very immediately was taking on those roles and also, it's a very assertive portrait. she is really looking at the viewer and she is, in fact, gesturing practically to the viewer and in order to do that, artists who we felt could tell a story very quickly and that included children's book illustrators and this particular portrait was done by someone who was internationally award winning children's book illustrator. and interestingly, it's become one of the portraits that is the most beloved by children who visit the capitol. they look at it and can immediately see what's going on. it's a piece of history that's a great thing for kids to hear and for tou

chisholm and later on like david dinkins and duvall patrick and even like barack obama obama. white voters would say i'm colorblind when i go to the polls. i will just pick the plot -- best candidate and they probably chose african-american candidates. at the same time they said i'm also colorblind when it comes to redistricting students so i'm not going to look at the reason that context leaping in an segregated school system or neighborhood. >> host: that is where i kind of lost you. i never saw ed brooke and david dinkins in the same way. david bank and the reason why he got elected in new york city was not the reason why ed brooke got elected in massachusetts. new york city was completely different situation in terms of racial tensions and racial progress. it was trying to calm those tensions and like others, i won't name names, but like others it was a situation where an individual was incompetent or unable to do the kinds of things he promised or wanted to do for all kinds of reasons. so you had david dinkins who was thrown out of office by the likes of rudy giuliani and

she's almost like shirley chisholm who came to the agriculture committee and people wondered what she would do there, but she understood as local representative that food stamps wants a handout but a handup. and then to the issues of all members, her understanding of the energy industry, particularly in states like louisiana and texas where she encouraged members to introduce the energy industry to the congressional black caucus in terms of giving information. that's what we are. we learn. we get information. and then of course her commitment to having an international presence that people would know that congressional black caucus cares about the international community. that is an important step. as we move forward in 2015, i wish the incoming chair much success and i think it is extremely important that we say thanks where appreciation is due, and i want to say thank you. many people claim friendship, but i will say to you, chairwoman fudge, you have now goten 40-plus new friends to your portfolio and we will claim you as a friend because as we work together in this last congress,

forhis is a campaign poster shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. i love this because it says "unbought and >> it is actually for a presidential campaign that she waged in 1972. she went to the democratic convention and rounded out about 10% of the votes. she is the first african-american woman to run for president and did it on a shoestring budget and had an admirable showing. she had a national reputation well before 1972. she is elected to congress in 1968 from a district that .ncompasses much of brooklyn she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the republican, liberal republican ticket was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders then there is this back and forth between these two and farmer really runs on the idea that brooklyn needs a man in congress and shirley chisholm, boy, she fires back. her campaign scene is like the one expressed on this poster. unboxed and unbiased. -- unbought and unbossed. she is the first to help establish the congressional black caucus in 1971 and she gains a v

. >> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. it says on bought -- says, unbought. >> it was actually for a presidential campaign she waged in 1972. she went to the democratic convention and rounded up 10% of the vote. she is the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget. she had a reputation, a national reputation well before 1972. she is elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn. she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the liberal republican ticket was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders, and there is this back and forth between these two. farmer really runs on the idea that brooklyn needs a man in congress, and shirley chisholm she fires back. her campaign theme is, unbought and unbossed. she embraces this advocacy role. she is elected. she becomes the first african-american woman of congress in 1969. she serves a career that in a lot of ways is symbolic. she helped establish the congr

. >> this is a campaign poster for shirley chisholm, the first african-american woman in congress. i love this because it says unbossed."nd it's actually for a campaign she waged in 1972. she's the first african-american woman to run for president, and she did it on a shoestring budget and had very admirable showing, but she had a national before 1972.ll she is elected to congress in 1968 from a district that encompasses much of brooklyn, and she becomes very prominent in that campaign. her opponent in the general election on the republican -- liberal republican ticket was james farmer, one of the great civil rights leaders, and there's this back and forth between these two, and farmer really runs on the idea that, you know, brooklyn needs a man in congress, and shirley chisholm -- boy, she fires back. her campaign scene is like the one expressed on this poster. "i'm here to be your congresswoman." this advocacy role. she becomes the first african-american woman in congress in 1969, and she serves a career that in a lot of ways is symbolic. she is a first. she helps establish the c