Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed & Unbowed is a solo show by Ingrid Griffith about the first African American woman to win a seat in Congress and the first African American to run for President of the U.S. for a major political party: Shirley Chisholm. In the 1960s and ’70s, this Brooklyn-born daughter of Caribbean parents was on a mission. They called her the Black Joan of Arc. She called herself “Fighting Shirley” as she faced off against the political machine in the name of justice. This inspiring story dramatizes the Civil Rights era, the unrest of the 1960s, the patriarchal system and the all-boys network Shirley Chisholm was up against — many themes we still see in the politics of today.