LETTERS READ: Janet Mary Riley
Though Janet Mary Riley did not define herself as a second wave feminist, by today\u2019s standards, she was a quiet but fierce civil rights advocate and tireless women\u2019s rights activist.\n\nThroughout her life, she fought for equal pay in the workplace.\n\nThis event is dedicated to her successful efforts to revise Louisiana\u2019s community property laws giving women equal management rights of a marriage\u2019s community property. Prior to Riley\u2019s heroic efforts, under Louisiana law, no married woman owned the right to manage her own property. That right was given, by law in marriage, to her husband. The law was changed in 1980.\n\nThe evening features emcee Chris Kaminstein, Co-Artistic Director of Goat in the Road Productions (GRP), and Leslie Boles Kraus, GRP Ensemble Member/Social Media Coordinator.