1 Several different conditions, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, can cause a woman to have a high unopposed estrogen level. 2  Treatment with tamoxifen: Women who have been treated with tamoxifen, a drug used to prevent and treat breast cancer, have an increased risk of developing endometrial cancer.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 30, 1924, Chisholm was the oldest of four daughters to immigrant parents Charles St. Hill, a factory worker from Guyana, and Ruby Seale St. Hill, a seamstress from Barbados. She graduated from Brooklyn Girlsâ High in 1942 and from Brooklyn College cum laude in 1946, where she won prizes on the debate team.
After leaving Congress, Chisholm taught at Mount Holyoke College and was an energetic supporter of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns. In 1993, She turned down President Bill Clinton's offer of an ambassadorship to Jamaica, and settled on the Florida coast. Shirley Chisholm died in 2005. When Chisholm gave this speech at Howard University in 1969, the campus had been through months of sometimes violent upheaval.