People For reflects on the life and legacy of People For Founder Norman Lear.
Producer and writer Norman Lear, who died Tuesday at age 101, was responsible for some of the most groundbreaking television shows of the 20th century, featuring LGBTQ+ characters and spotlighting feminism, the lives of Black families, abortion, divorce, and many other aspects of American life not usually seen on TV at the time.
Lear also was a passionate liberal activist who founded People for the American Way in 1981 to stand up to the emerging religious right movement.
