celebratingamazingwomen: Eleanor Holmes Norton (b. 1937) is a lawyer and politician. She is a non-vo
celebratingamazingwomen: Eleanor Holmes Norton (b. 1937) is a lawyer and politician. She is a non-voting Delegate to the US House of Representatives, as well as a devoted civil rights activist. She studied law at Yale, and later worked as the assistant legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1977 she became the first female Chair of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and in 1990 she co-founded the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom organization. -- source link
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