First Negro woman voted to Congress

NEW YORK -- Mrs. Shirley Chisholm, a 43-year-old West Indian-born educator who spent 19 years as a political clubhouse volunteer, last night became the first Negro woman in history to be elected to Congress.

Mrs. Chisholm, New York's Democratic national committeewoman, defeated civil rights leader James Farmer, former head of the Congress of Racial Equality, in the newly reapportioned 12th congressional district in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.