Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980

Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980

Riley, Janet Mary

Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)

Reprint of quote for exhibit use.

"It brings Louisiana into the 2Oth century. But we have to understand that it wasn’t handed to us by the legislature. We fought for it every inch of the way."

White, Sara

Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)

Allured, Janet. Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: the long women's rights movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016), 260.

Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)

2017

1980-01

Riley, Janet Mary

It brings Louisiana into the 2Oth century. But we have to understand that it wasn’t handed to us by the legislature. We fought for it every inch of the way.

-- JMR, “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980

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