The first Black woman elected to Congress, Shirley Chisholm made history again in 1972 when she announced her candidacy for President of the United States. With the candor and straightforward style for which she was famous, Chisholm's 1973 memoir reveals the essential wheeling and dealing of campaigning, castigates the conservatism of the Black majority of the period, calls out the power struggles within the Democratic Party, and offers prescient advice on the direction of Black politics.