Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed

Award-winning playwright Ingrid Griffith will perform her solo show Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed at the New Federal Theatre’s Ancestral Voices Solo Festival. Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed tells the remarkable story of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, a Brooklyn-born politician of immigrant parents, who in the 1960s and ‘70s, was the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress and run for U.S. President. This immersive and interactive one-woman show dramatizes the unrest of the 1960s’ Civil Rights era and the patriarchal systems “Fighting Shirley” stood up against. Ingrid Griffith portrays several characters throughout Chisholm’s life who have strong voices and points-of-view, but it’s Shirley’s journey and enduring legacy that deliver the story’s core message of strength and perseverance in turbulent times.