Rosemary Brown challenges barriers when she becomes the first woman and the first Black person to contest the leadership of a national political party. First elected in 1972 as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in British Columbia, Brown runs a strong campaign to head the federal New Democratic Party in 1975, coming in a close second to Ed Broadbent.
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