For the last four decades , the predominantly black population of central Brooklyn has been represented in Washington by one of its own , a tradition that dates to the 1968 victory of Shirley Chisholm , the first black woman elected to Congress .
Shirley Chisholm /people/person/place_of_birth Brooklyn
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Shirley Chisholm
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Brooklyn
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