ABSTRACT
Shirley Chisholm's electoral triumph pushed her into the national spotlight. Chisholm's victory was reported in countless other publications, including Ebony and even Vogue. A bonus of becoming a congresswoman was that Chisholm was able to realize the Barbadian dream of owning a brownstone; a nineteenth-century terraced row house, which was not uncommon in Chisholm's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Chisholm's congressional office soon became the adopted office for residents of the capital. Chisholm entered Congress with a clear social and political agenda that was far more ambitious than those of most of her liberal colleagues. Chisholm wanted to be on the Education and Labor Committee. Chisholm also tried to mount a campaign against the emergency section of the preventive detention section of the Internal Security Act, whose provisions included the confinement of possible spies and saboteurs in the case of war or domestic insurrection.
