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Dec 7, 2017

Before becoming a 14-term (and still going!) delegate representing Washington, D.C. in Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton spent years kicking ass as a lawyer. She fought for housing rights, employment rights, and helped define sexual harassment as discrimination. Learn more about Norton in this week's She the People!

Hosts: Heather Linder & Billy Puckett

Producer and Music Composition: Tim Corpus (timcorpus.com)

Sources:

https://norton.house.gov/about/full-biography

https://www.biography.com/people/eleanor-holmes-norton-9425250

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/norton-eleanor-holmes-1937

http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/law-biographies/eleanor-holmes-norton

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/10/27/what-the-new-series-good-girls-revolt-gets-right-about-d-c-del-eleanor-holmes-norton/?utm_term=.7670771cf7a0