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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “If I may, I wish to point you back to the civil rights era.”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
If I may, I wish to point you back to the civil rights era.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton references civil rights to support the argument for D.C. statehood.

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