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Fanchon Blake was a Major in the US Army during WW2.  After the war she joined the LAPD where she was restricted from not only using her skills as a Major but was sometimes reduced to custodial work.

When she objected to the rule that women couldn't rise above the rank of sergeant, she was ridiculed until she fought by back filing a lawsuit against the LAPD in 1973.

She was ostracized by her fellow "men in blue" until she won her lawsuit changing history for women in the workplace.

Join Kit and Sherlock for details about the courageous Fanchon Blake's fight against the LAPD in 1973.

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