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03600cam a2200445 a 4500 001 71BFFECC2B0211DE8760C407A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20161116010312 008 030417s2003 nyuaf b 001 0beng d 010 $a 2003266943 020 $a 9780743407878 020 $a 0743407873 040 $a B@L $c B@L $d SILO $d XY4 $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCG $d IO4 $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-us-dc $a n-us-dc 050 00 $a E840.8.N68 $b L47 2003 082 04 $a B $a B $2 21 100 1 $a Lester, Joan Steinau, $d 1940- 245 1 $a Fire in my soul / $c Joan Steinau Lester as authorized by Eleanor Holmes Norton ; [foreword by Coretta Scott King]. 260 $a New York : $b Atria Books, $c c2003. 300 $a xiv, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 500 $a At head of title: Eleanor Holmes Norton. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-350) and index. 520 $a Here is the remarkable story of U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton -- impassioned civil rights activist, hard-driving legislator, and one of the most powerful women in American history. They call her the "Warrior on the Hill," acknowledging the battles she's waged as a political pioneer across more than four decades of American history. Perhaps more than anyone else, she has taken to heart Eleanor Roosevelt's famous pronouncement that "every political woman needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide." Joan Steinau Lester shared much of the last forty years with Eleanor Holmes Norton. They met in 1958 when they were both students at Antioch College. Now an acclaimed author, Lester shares her friendship with the congresswoman and tells the story of one woman's rise to leadership. Charting forty years of political and personal challenge, Fire in My Soul shows Norton marching on the Capitol to demand a Senate hearing for Anita Hill; grilling Army generals about sex abuse; arguing before the Supreme Court to uphold first amendment rights, even for a segregationist; and much more. Norton's story is organically linked to Washington, D.C., home to her family for four generations, and reveals why she is now the voice of the city. This fascinating biography, told largely in Norton's words, showcases as never before the many facets of a woman who remains an iconic torch-bearer for the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. Scores of conversations with Norton and nearly a hundred interviews with colleagues, family, and friends have made Fire in My Soul a remarkable document of how one extraordinary woman helped to effect lasting change in the ways we interact across racial and gender lines. 600 10 $a Norton, Eleanor Holmes. 650 0 $a Legislators $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women legislators $v Biography. 610 10 $a United States. $b House $b House $v Biography. 651 0 $a Washington (D.C.) $x Politics and government. 700 1 $a Norton, Eleanor Holmes. 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon052/2003266943.html 856 41 $3 Sample text $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/simon031/2003266943.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon034/2003266943.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0630/2003266943-t.html 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724060835.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191121011339.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820044413.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=71BFFECC2B0211DE8760C407A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b IO4Initiate Another SILO Locator Search