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Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American politician serving as a non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia. As a non-voting member, Norton may serve on committees, introduce legislation, as well as speak on the House floor; however, she is not permitted to vote on the final passage of any legislation. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Eleanor K. Holmes was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Vela (née Lynch), a schoolteacher, and Coleman Holmes, a civil servant. While a student at Dunbar High School she was elected junior class president and was a member of the National Honor Society. She attended Antioch College (B.A. 1960), Yale University (M.A. in American Studies 1963) and Yale Law School (LL.B. 1964).
While in college and graduate school, she was active in the civil rights movement and an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. By the time she graduated from Antioch, she had already been arrested for organizing and participating in sit-ins in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Ohio. While in law school, she traveled to Mississippi for the Mississippi Freedom Summer and worked with civil rights stalwarts such as Medgar Evers. Her first encounter with a recently released but physically beaten Fannie Lou Hamer forced her to bear witness to the intensity of violence and Jim Crow repression in the South. Her time with the SNCC inspired her lifelong commitment to social activism and her budding sense of feminism. She contributed the piece "For Sadie and Maud" to the 1970 anthology Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women's Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan. Norton was on the founding advisory board of the Women's Rights Law Reporter (founded 1970), the first legal periodical in the United States to focus exclusively on the field of women's rights law. In the early 1970s, Norton was a signer of the Black Woman's Manifesto, a classic document of the Black feminist movement.
Upon graduation from law school, she worked as a law clerk to Federal District Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr In 1965, she became the assistant legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, a position she held until 1970. She worked as an adjunct assistant professor at New York University Law School from 1970 to 1971. In 1970, Mayor John Lindsay appointed her as the head of the New York City Human Rights Commission, and she held the first hearings in the country on discrimination against women. Appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the first female chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1977, Norton released the EEOC's first set of regulations outlining what constituted sexual harassment and declaring that sexual harassment was indeed a form of sexual discrimination that violated federal civil rights laws.
She has also served as a senior fellow of the Urban Institute. Norton became a professor at Georgetown University Law Center in 1982. During this time, she was a vocal anti-apartheid activist in the U.S., and was a part of the Free South Africa Movement.
Norton was elected in 1990 as a Democratic delegate to the House of Representatives. The delegate position was open because Del. Walter Fauntroy was running for mayor rather than seeking reelection. Norton received 39 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary election, and 59 percent of the vote in the general election. Norton took office on January 3, 1991, and has been reelected every two years since.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress biography, Eleanor Holmes Norton, accessed March 8, 2021.
NORTON, Eleanor Holmes, a Delegate from the District of Columbia; born in Washington, D.C., June 13, 1937; graduated from Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C.; B.A., Antioch College of Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1960; M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1963; LL.B., Yale University Law School, New Haven, Conn., 1964; lawyer, private practice; law clerk to Federal District Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, 3rd Circuit, 1964-1965; assistant legal director, American Civil Liberties Union, 1965-1970; adjunct assistant professor, New York University Law School, 1970-1971; staff, New York, N.Y. Mayor John Lindsay, 1971-1974; chair, New York City commission on human rights, 1970-1977; chair, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1977-1981; senior fellow, Urban Institute, 1981-1982; professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1982-1990; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Second and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-present).
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Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, now in her fifteenth term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia, is the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. She serves on two committees: the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Before her congressional service, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to serve as the first woman to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She came to Congress as a national figure who had been a civil rights and feminist leader, tenured professor of law, and board member at three Fortune 500 companies. Congresswoman Norton has been named one of the 100 most important American women in one survey and one of the most powerful women in Washington in another. The Congresswoman's work for full congressional voting representation and for full democracy for the people of the District of Columbia continues her lifelong struggle for universal human and civil rights.
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The HistoryMakers' biography for Eleanor Holmes Norton, accessed October 1, 2020
<p>Lawyer and political leader Eleanor Holmes Norton was born on June 13, 1937 in Washington D.C. to Vela and Coleman Holmes. She received her B.A. degree from Antioch College, and simultaneously earned her M.A. degree in American Studies and her J.D. degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.</p>
<p>After graduating from Yale, Norton worked as a law clerk for Federal District Court Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. She was appointed assistant legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in 1965, where she represented sixty female employees of Newsweek in their gender discrimination lawsuit against the newspaper in 1970. That same year, she left the American Civil Liberties to head New York’s Human Rights Commission. An active civil rights and feminist leader, Norton served on the founding board of Women’s Rights Law Reporter, the first legal periodical focused on women, and was one of the women to sign the Black Woman’s Manifesto, arguing against the oppression of black women.</p>
<p>In 1977, Norton was appointed the first female chair of the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Jimmy Carter. She began teaching law classes at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1981, continuing to teach as a tenured professor of law even after being elected to office. Norton was first elected to the U.S. Congress in 1990 as a democratic delegate to the House of Representatives. Though Norton did not have voting power in Congress as a delegate, she did use her position to influence decisions in the House and in the Senate. Over the years, Norton has brought significant economic development to the District of Columbia throughout her service in Congress, while creating and preserving jobs in Washington, D.C. and securing the construction of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Washington, D.C., in addition to the development of the Southeast Federal Center.</p>
Wikipedia article for Eleanor Holmes Norton, viewed July 17, 2020
Eleanor Holmes Norton (born June 13, 1937) is an American politician serving as a non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, representing the District of Columbia. As a non-voting member, Norton may serve on committees as well as speak on the House floor; however, she is not permitted to vote on the final passage of any legislation. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Papers of Mary O. Eastwood, (inclusive), (bulk), 1915-1983, 1961-1977
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Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006. Legislative Files, ca. 2010 - 1/3/2016
Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006. Legislative Files, ca. 2010 - 1/3/2016
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Records of the National Park Service, 1785 - 2006. Legislative Files, ca. 2010 - 1/3/2016
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12,364 Portable Document Format (PDF) files, 103 Microsoft Word files, 2 electronic documentation files in Microsoft Word format, and 1 electronic documentation file in Portable Document Format (PDF)
Papers of Florynce Kennedy, (inclusive), (bulk), 1915-2004, 1947-1993
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She's Nobody's Baby collection, 1980-1987
She's Nobody's Baby collection, 1980-1987
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She's Nobody's Baby collection, 1980-1987
Correspondence, scripts, budgets, photographs, materials relating to a companion book, and a 16 mm film associated with the production , a 1981 Peabody Award-winning documentary by the Ms. Foundation for Education and Communication in association with the Home Box Office cable network. She's Nobody's Baby
ArchivalResource:
2.9 linear ft.; (7 file boxes) plus 2 folio boxes, 2 photograph folders, and 1 motion picture
Civil rights activist and author. Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, notes, reports, press releases, financial records, agendas, printed material, and other papers documenting Bayard Rustin's leading role as an activist in the African-American civil rights movement, advocate of international human rights and social reform, and pacifist.
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17,500 items; 49 containers plus 1 oversize; 19.6 linear feet; 23 microfilm reels
Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bell, a distinguished scholar and prolific writer on current issues, most notably civil rights in the United States, is a tenured member of the faculty at the New York University Law School. He earned his BA in Political Science from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and his LLB from the University of Pittsburgh in 1957. After serving for two years as a staff attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, he resigned because the department asked him to withdraw his membership from the NAACP. Bell became assistant counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and between 1960 and 1966 he administered 300 desegregation cases regarding schools and restaurant chains in the South. When Bell joined the faculty of Harvard University in 1969, he became the first African-American professor at that institution. In 1981 Bell left Harvard for the University of Oregon Law School where he was Dean until 1985. He resigned his post at Oregon in protest over the University's refusal to offer a faculty position to a "woman of color". He returned to Harvard in 1986, but in 1991 took a visiting professorship at New York University to protest the lack of diversity of the Harvard Law School faculty. The Bell Papers, 1955-2006, are comprised of his correspondence, writings, and teaching materials.
Research materials: notes, correspondence, drafts, interview audiotapes (especially noteworthy) produced by Kevles for her magazine profiles of Joan Baez, Shirley Temple Black, Coleen Corby, Edith Head, Jeanne Moreau, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Gail Parent, Liv Ullmann, and Sharon Percy Rockefeller.
Woman alive! produced by KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth and WNET/13 New York; made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; executive producer, Joan Shigekawa.
Shigekawa, Joan,. Woman alive! produced by KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth and WNET/13 New York; made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; executive producer, Joan Shigekawa.
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Woman alive! produced by KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth and WNET/13 New York; made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; executive producer, Joan Shigekawa.
Consists of videotapes and program books of the one-hour pilot show (1974), ten half-hour programs (1975), and five one-hour programs (1977). Each program book consists of a transcript and brief description of the show as well as news releases, black and white photographs of participants, and a program format log.
Shigekawa, Joan,. Woman alive! produced by KERA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth and WNET/13 New York; made possible by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; executive producer, Joan Shigekawa.
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Records of the National Organization for Women, 1959-2002 (inclusive), 1966-1998 (bulk)
Records of the National Organization for Women, 1959-2002 (inclusive), 1966-1998 (bulk)
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Records of the National Organization for Women, 1959-2002 (inclusive), 1966-1998 (bulk)
Records of the National Organization for Women (1966- ), the largest feminist organization in the United States
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
Lawyer and political leader Eleanor Holmes Norton (1937 – ) served as democratic delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for over twenty-five years, after having served as the first female chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Norton was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/25/2018, in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.
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Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 55m 56s
National Organization for Women. Records: Series I-XVI, 1961-1999 (inclusive).
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Records: Series I-XVI, 1961-1999 (inclusive).
This record represents Series I-XVI: I. Organization and Policy. II. Records of Board and Executive Committee. III. Conferences. IV. National Office. V. Membership Records. VI. Mailings. VII. Legislative Office. VIII. Public Information Office. IX. National Action Center: Administrative Files. X. National Action Center: Press Office. XI. National Action Center: Subject Files. XII. Financial. XIII. Task Forces and Conference Implementation Committees. XIV. Regions and Chapters. XV. Papers of Leaders: Alice S. Rossi. XVI. Papers of Leaders: Gene Boyer.
National Organization for Women. Records: Series I-XVI, 1961-1999 (inclusive).
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Records of the White House Counsel's Office (George W. Bush Administration), 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009. Brett Kavanaugh's Files, 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009
Records of the White House Counsel's Office (George W. Bush Administration), 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009. Brett Kavanaugh's Files, 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009
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Records of the White House Counsel's Office (George W. Bush Administration), 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009. Brett Kavanaugh's Files, 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009
Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary. 1976 - 1981. Presidential Files. 1977 - 1981. 2/3/77 [1]
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Marymal Dryden--Judith Allen Ingram collection 1985-1995.
Ingram, Judith Allen. Marymal Dryden--Judith Allen Ingram collection 1985-1995.
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Marymal Dryden--Judith Allen Ingram collection 1985-1995.
The collection consists of scrapbooks papers, press clippings, photographs and evaluations from events presented by the Division of Continuing Education at Georgia State University.
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