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Absolute Equality for Women in Law and Custom ; Gail Laughlin\u27s Fight for Gender Equality in the Maine Legislature
No full textThe subject of this thesis, Gail Laughlin, was among the first group of women elected to the Maine Legislature shortly after full suffrage was gained. She served six terms in the Legislature between 1927 and 1941, three in the Maine House of Representatives and three in the Senate. Laughlin was a leading political figure nationally and in Maine and an effective public servant who worked for equality in law for women. Laughlin was born in Robbinston, Maine, in 1868. She graduated from Portland High School in 1886, earned a bachelor\u27s degree from Wellesley College in 1894, and a law degree from Cornell University\u27s Law Department in 1898. Laughlin was licensed to practice law in Maine, Colorado, and California. She was a tireless crusader for women\u27s rights. She was a lecturer for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, a founder and first president of the Federation of Business and Professional Women\u27s Clubs, a leader in the National Woman\u27s Party, and active in myriad local, state, and political and public service organizations. In this paper, I look at the specific bills that Laughlin sponsored to address the issue of gender equity for Maine women. I argue that Gail Laughlin was one of the most involved and effective lawmakers during her terms of service. She made major contributions to Maine law that improved the lives of women. She was informed, determined, confident, eloquent, and courageous in her legislative work. She is a role model today for women who want to enter the political sphere, whether by running for elected office or by serving in organizations, clubs, or in other capacities to further the public good. Gail Laughlin is someone Maine citizens need to know more about in order to take pride in her accomplishments and to understand her contributions to change Maine law. This paper addresses one specific aspect of her legislative work—that of gender equality—and serves as a platform for further study
Author Gail Gibbons Holds Open Book, circa 1988
No full textAuthor Gail Gibbons is shown holding open a book titled, Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons. The book was published in 1988. (circa 1988 or after)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1980/1142/thumbnail.jp
Gail Buckley: Black America at War: From George Washington to George Bush
No full textGail Buckley is a best-selling author and historian.
Her first book, The Hornes: An American Family, is an inspired history of Buckley’s mother, musical legend Lena Horne, and her family. Buckley traces the Hornes’ roots from the post-Civil War Reconstruction era up to the present day, writing with great insight about a family with ties to every major event in the United States during the past 150 years.
Buckley is a chronicler of “undiscovered American history – the people and events that are left out of the textbooks.” Buckley’s new book, The Black Calhouns (released February 2016), follows her family history from the Civil War to Civil Rights, starting with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a slave-turned-businessman
Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics [front matter]
No full textGail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics is an accessible guide to the writings of Gail Jones, the award-winning Australian author, essayist and academic. Drawing together ideas from literature, art, philosophy and photography, the volume presents a compelling analysis of Jones’ literary commitment to the political and the personal, and reflects on how and why we interpret literary texts. An essential contribution to the intersecting fields of Australian studies and international literature, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics offers innovative insights into the writing of one of Australia’s most accomplished authors
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A college girl on the Wilson bill ::the brilliant speech of Miss Gail H. Laughlin ... before the Agora Society of Wellesley College, sitting as the United States Senate, March 17, 1894.
No full textCelui qui sut toucher mon coeur [first line]
No full texttheme and variationpiano and voiceDediees Mme. Beylard par P. Gilles.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
113, Item 034aParoles de Dubois. Musique de Mme. Gail. Avec Variations pour la Voic, Suivies d'une Ritournelle
Celui qui sut toucher mon coeur [first line]
No full texttheme and variationpiano and voiceDediees Mme. Beylard par P. Gilles.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
113, Item 034aParoles de Dubois. Musique de Mme. Gail. Avec Variations pour la Voic, Suivies d'une Ritournelle
A college girl on the Wilson bill. The brillant speech of Miss Gail H. Laughlin, of Portland, Me., before the Agora society of Wellesley College, sitting as the United States senate, Mar. 17, 1894
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