Durbin, Maurice
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General note

Folder 1: --ERA explanation and suggestions

--Listing of LA legislators

--Listing of groups of people in support of and in opposition of ERA

--Personal letters concerning the network and the ERA

--Articles explaining ERA and its progress

--Promotional Flyers for ERA

Folder 2:

--The Equal Rights Amendment: 31 Editors speak out (booklet published by ERAmerica with a grant from Women in Communication, Inc.)

Folder 3:

--Opinions of ERA survey

--ERA analysis on elections of unratified states

--Articles concerning different group opinions of ERA

--Leaflet concerning LA community property law

--Pamphlet titled "Labors Case for ERA"

--Pamphlet explaining why homemakers need ERA

--1966 and 1979 copy of ERA in constitutional form

--List of LA House of Representatives opinions on ERA

Folder 4:

--"Women Urged to Fight Tax Cuts" by Eleanor Rushing

--"Landrieu Treasury a Vital Concern" by Nancy Bergeron

--"Maurice Durbin to be Speaker at Commission for Women Banquet"

--"Lobbying a Full Time Job for Durbin" by Kathy Calonge

--"Durbin, Allen to be honored at Banquet"

--"Women Lobbyists Mean Business-Struggle to be Taken Seriously Continues" by Karen Martin

--Photograph of Mary Gilber, inscription and letter attached

--Louisiana Women (a small news journal published Dec. 2, 1989) Folder 5:

--Editorial cartoon mocking women efforts in ERA

--Louisiana Capital Review published by LA News Bureau

--"Controversy: Should Doctors be Performing Genital Mutilation?" May 1993

--Glamour

--LA representatives and senate ERA vote tally and sentiments

--"A Brief in Support of its Ratification" proposal write-up of ERA prepared for the League of Women Voters of the U.S.A.

Folder 6 (titled 'abortion' by Durbin):

--Transcribed legislative session between senate members concerning bill 438

--1985 editorial by Ellen Goodman

--"Doctors and Abortions" by Lloyd Shearer, 1990

--LA Republicans For Choice newsletter

--Advice column gives history of birth control methods

--Editorial by James L. Crump in response to '85 Goodman editorial

--Pamphlet "What the Bible says about Abortion"

Folder 7:

--"Our National Heritage" Aug 26, '81 by Billie M. Bobbit

--"Women's Equality Day" by Milfred Jeffery

--"Women's Concerns About Change in Voting Patterns-Regan vs. Carter"

--"The Era and Pension Protection For Homemakers," a newsletter

--State ERAs

--Letter to the editor by Lynne Burks

--Booklet "The Missing Link to Passage of the ERA" published by the National Alliance of Black Feminists

--"Massachusetts Supreme Court Keeps ERA and Abortion Separate" press release

--"Am I a Full Citizen?"

--Handwritten note to Lee Hardgrove (?)

Folder 8:

--Political Cartoons

--"Senate Votes to Purge Sexual Bias from Laws"

--"Senate Sends House Bill to Take Sex Bias Out of State Laws"

--"LA High Court Issues Child Support Ruling"

--"Senate OK's Measure to Strengthen Rape Laws"

--"House of Reps Kills Attempt to Change Custody Laws"

--"House OK's Bill to Change Law on Filing Charges"

--"Senate Bills Tightening Sex Offense Laws OK'd"

--"Senate OK's Tougher Laws on Sex Offenses"

--"More Than Money Needed" - concerning child support laws

--"Panel Adds to Budget Bill, Adjourns in Disarray"

--"LA Leads Region in Collecting Child Support" by Brad Piece

Folder 9:

--The Right of Women to Name Their Children - a booklet by Priscilla Ruth MacDougall

Folder 10: --Women of Louisiana Book of National and Gender Comparisons

Folder 11:

--Letters from Priscilla Ruth MacDougall

--Write-up of LA Constitutional Act for Children's Last Names

--Correspondence between MacDougall and Pierce Barker

--Copy of the Naming Act of New Hampshire 1983

--Analysis of Naming Bill

--Telephone number for some man in records

Folder 12:

--"Courses, Tests and Even Teach Favor Boys, Study Claims"

--"The Gender Gap Bears Checking"

--"Gender Gap Alive but Not Well" by Hayes Johnson

--"When Looking Good is No Good" by Judy Mann

--"Last Bastion About to Fall" by Ellen Goodman

--"Take an Advance Look at All Sides of the Issue"

--"Sisterhood Declined as Equality Builds" by Ellen Goodman

--"A Bit More Than an Inconvenience" by James Kilpatrick

--"Cow Camp Jokes and Rape Myths" by Clarence Page

--"Fetal Protection and Job Rights" by Ellen Goodman

--"Discounts at the Wrong End" by Ellen Goodman

--"An Attitude that Leads to Violence" by Judy Mann

--"High Court Rules for Narrow View of Discrimination"

--"Feminists Trouble Catholics" by Mary Kay Blakely

--"Going After Deadbeat Daddies" by James Kilpatrick

--"Women-Power" intelligence report by Lloyd Shearer

--"Why and When Some Women Vote" by Judy Mann, 1986

--"The Women Have Won a Revolution" by Jeff Greenfield

--"Consult the Victim in a Plea Bargain" by Roy Pitchford

--"Sexual Harassment and the Courts" by James Kilpatrick

--"Dreamers Who Put it on the Line Leave a Legacy" by Erma Bombeck

--"Schools Should Lead on in Equality" by Judy Mann

--"O'Connor says Women's Issues Will Occupy the Courts for Years"

--"A Post- Feminist Convention" 1988

--"Claire Booth Luce, One of the Most Influential Women of Her Age, Dies"

--"Raw Deal For Women"

--"Gender Gap a Big Dilemma for Bush" by Tom Fielder

--"The Senate Owes This Help to Women" by Judy Mann

--"Bach, Shakespeare, and Sexual Bias" by Gary Wills

--"Just Segregation in Another Guise" by Ellen Goodman

--"Women Not Fully Represented Yet" Folder 13:

--Drafts of speeches by Durbin

--Notes for speeches by Durbin

--Notes from speeches

--Legislative updates for Network meetings (packets, briefs)

--Newsletter to Network members by Maurice Durbin

--"Law Aids Women Now" by Maurice Durbin