Shirley Chisholm and the 10 other gallant Black women who have run for president

Carol Moseley Braun

She is well known as the American diplomat, lawyer and politician who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. The first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, Braun was also the first African-American U.S. Senator from the Democratic Party. In 2004, she ran for president as a Democrat in the presidential election but lost the Democratic nomination to John Kerry.

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