November 30: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American Congresswoman, (D-NY, 1969-83) and first woman and first African-American Democratic presidential nominee, was born today in 1924.
Mary Lasker worked with the Birth Control Federation of America (later renamed Planned Parenthood), land obbied for federal funding for the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart Institute. She was born today in 1900.