Episode 18 - The Notorious RBG, American Icon

In this epic time in our history when the country seems so divided, we all need to take a deep breath and recognize a great American life.  She was born Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, NY in 1933 of a Russian Jewish emigrant father and a Jewish mother from Brooklyn. Her first taste of hardship came early when her mother died the day before Ruth's high school graduation. She went on to attend Cornell University where she met her husband Martin Ginsburg who she married a month after graduation in 1954. She gave birth to her first child a year later while working for the Social Security Administration as her husband was a new Army officer at Ft. Sill Oklahoma. In 1956, Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she was one of only nine women in a class of about 500 men. The Dean of Harvard Law reportedly invited all the female law students to dinner at his family home and asked the female law students, including Ginsburg, "Why are you at Harvard Law School, taking the place of a man?"