From TimeLine authored by Meagan Day:
“Lorena Weeks worked nearly all her life. When she was a child in Georgia, her father was killed in a sawmill accident, and her mother — 29 years old, with four children — struggled to make ends meet. She entered the workforce, and Lorena did, too. “I went to work at the five-and-ten-cent store when I was nine years old,” she later recalled. “I could barely see over the counter because I was small in stature. I worked for one dollar a day.”
When Weeks was 18, her mother died, too, leaving her to raise her younger siblings alone. That was when she went to work for the Southern Bell telephone company in Wadley, Georgia in the late 1940s. Eventually she would sue the company for discriminating against her based on her gender — a landmark 1966 case that would open up economic opportunities for women all across the nation.”
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