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Days after she signeda first-look deal with Amazon, Viola Davis has arrived to lead you … to freedom!
Chisholm grew up in Brooklyn and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968.
She was candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 1972.
In 2015, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
