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4 unusual facts about Eleanor Holmes Norton


Free South Africa Movement

The movement began when Randall Robinson, Executive Director of TransAfrica, Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, D.C. Congressman Walter Fauntroy and Georgetown University law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton met with South African Ambassador at his embassy to highlight human rights abuses in South Africa.

Lin Farley

In April 1975 she testified before the New York City Human Rights Commission Hearings on Women and Work, led by Eleanor Holmes Norton.

National Dance Day

In 2010, American congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, a long-time proponent of healthy lifestyles, introduced a National Dance Day resolution to promote dance education and physical fitness.

Sisterhood is Powerful

The compilation included classic feminist essays by activists such as Naomi Weisstein, Lucinda Cisler, Kate Millett, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Flo Kennedy, Frances Beale, Jo Freeman and Mary Daly, as well as historical documents including the N.O.W. Bill of Rights, excerpts from the SCUM Manifesto, the Redstockings Manifesto, and historical documents from W.I.T.C.H.


The Best of The Colbert Report

The compilation features a number of Better Know a District segments in which Colbert interviews members of Congress, including Eleanor Holmes Norton and Robert Wexler.

United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia, 2000

The winner of the race was incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who is now serving in the 107th Congress from January 4, 2001, until her term of office expires on January 3, 2003.

United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia, 2002

The winner of the race was incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who is now serving in the 108th Congress from January 4, 2003, until her term of office expires on January 3, 2005.

United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia, 2004

The winner of the race was incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who is now serving in the 109th Congress from January 4, 2005, until her term of office expires on January 3, 2007.

United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia, 2006

The winner of the race was incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who is now serving in the 110th Congress from January 4, 2007, until her term of office expires on January 3, 2009.

United States House of Representatives election in the District of Columbia, 2008

The winner of the race was incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), who is now serving in the 111th Congress from January 4, 2009, until her term of office expires on January 3, 2011.


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Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.