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Civil Rights and Feminist Pioneer Eleanor Holmes Norton

Legislative stalwart, civil rights and feminist pioneer U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s TV show this week. Norton has represented the District of Columbia for 15 terms and is a member of the Congressional Freethought Caucus. She argued and won her first case before the Supreme Court after graduating from Yale Law School just four years earlier and is currently a tenured professor of law at Georgetown University. Norton has been a lifelong advocate for civil rights. She helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, and she worked with John Lewis when both were young members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She also worked with Medgar Evers and she bore witness to Fannie Lou Hamer’s mistreatment. She was part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer and has championed voting rights and self-government for the District of Columbia. Her feminist credentials include being appointed by President Carter to be the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she crafted the first sexual harassment regulations. Norton convened the first hearings in the nation on discrimination against women as New York City Commissioner on Human Rights. She successfully represented 60 female employees who sued over Newsweek’s policy that allowed only men to be reporters. And she’s been an early and now lifelong champion of reproductive rights. “Remember, I was born and raised in a city where I had to go to segregated schools. That’s no longer the case,” she reveals her reasons for optimism to FFRF Co-Presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “I was born and raised in a city that didn't have any rights whatsoever — not even the right to vote locally. I was born and raised in a city that had no rights to have a member of Congress, and here I sit as a member of the House of Representatives. So if you believe in change, then, of course, you must be optimistic. I believe in change because I have seen change happen.” Learn more about the Freedom From Religion Foundation at ffrf.org.