Commemorating Women's Rights

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement, the Brandeis School of Law is presenting an exhibit entitled "Connecting With Our Legacy: Kentucky's Early Women Lawyers." The exhibit, a multimedia tribute to a select group of women lawyers, will be in the Law Library Reading Room from march 11 through May 11. The exhibit will be open to the public during all the hours the Law Library is open.

The exhibit is based on the research of Professor Kathleen S. Bean, a member of the Brandeis School of Law faculty. During academic year 1992-93, Professor Bean received a grant from the Kentucky Oral History Commission to fund research on the Commonwealth's early women lawyers. She interviewed twenty women during 1993; this exhibit is based on that research. The University Archives and Records Center (UARC) owns the rights to the oral interviews. The tapes are stored in UARC and Archivist Mary Margaret Bell, Co-Director of the UofL Oral History Center, has now completed the editing of the interview transcriptions. (That material will soon be available on the Oral History Center's web site.

If you visit us in person, you can see the new Gateway Destination PC/TV workstation in action. If you want to visit the virtual exhibit in cyberspace, point your browser to http://www.louisville.edu/brandeislaw/connecting. The web site will be available on March 11. For more information, call Robin Harris at 852-6083.

For a list of Women's History Month Events, see: http://www.louisville.edu/provost/womenctr/currcal.htm.