| 11-20 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Women and Jury Duty
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Barbra Streisand.
Women and Jury Duty
Event 11-20-1961, the Supreme
Court upholds a Florida law which exempts women from jury duty, unless
they volunteer. In all, 18 states allow the jury duty exemption while three
state, Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina outright barred women from
jury duty.
However, on 02-07-1966, a federal court rules that
such laws should end on June 1, 1967 because such laws "deny
to women the equal protection of the laws in violation of the 14th amendment."
In January of 1975 the Supreme Court says a Louisiana
law forbidding women serving on juries is unconstitutional.
The first woman juror served in the State of New York
in 1936... 1936, that's no typo.
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11-20 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-20-1827, Emily Howland, received an honorary
doctorate by the University of the State of New York at age 99 for
her services to educating black students which included helping establish
or aiding more than 30 institutions of learning in the youth, and schools
in New York and Virginia.
B. 11-20-1858, Selma Lagerlof, Swedish writer,
was translated into 30 languages and the first woman member of the Swedish
Academy.
B. 11-20-1885, Olive D. Wetzel Dennis, service
engineer with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. She is responsible for such
unheard of things as air conditioning, reclining seats, and dressing rooms
to be installed on trains. She had an MA in mathematics and a civil engineering
degree.
B. 11-20-1912, Carman Dee Barnes, her first
novel Schoolgirl (1929) published at 16 got her expelled from
a private New York City school because it was so "risque."
It is still considered readable by some critics, but the play adaptation
turned the novel into white bread. Her daughter is Diantha Barnes, Southern
poet and folklorist.
B. 11-20-1923, Nadine Gordimer, South African
writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for literature. One of her most
notable books is A Guest of Honor.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
STREISAND, BARBRA:
"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated
society. A man shows leadership; a woman is controlling. If a man wants
to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get
it right, she's difficult and demanding."
-- Barbra Streisand, 1992
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