Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
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Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
Subject
Riley, Janet Mary
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Description
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."
Creator
White, Sara
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Source
Allured, Janet. Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: the long women's rights movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997. (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2016), 260.
Publisher
Loyola University (New Orleans, La.)
Date
2017
1980-01
Contributor
Riley, Janet Mary
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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
-- JMR, “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980
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White, Sara and Loyola University (New Orleans, La.), “Quote by Janet Mary Riley found in “New Marriage Laws: Not One Woman Opposed Them”, Distaff interview, January 1980,” Loyola University New Orleans Special Collections & Archives, accessed April 23, 2024, https://loynosca.omeka.net/items/show/30.