[Photograph 2012.201.B0372.0172]
Description:
Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A "Pantsuit Day for Beth" was staged today at the Cowley County Courthouse in Winfield, Kan., for a woman reporter barred from a Newkirk court trial Wednesday because of her attire. The reporter, Beth Lilley of Arkansas City, was quietly told that her pantsuit did not meet the standards of dress for women in the court of Dist. Judge Lester R. Maris. She was barred from returning to the courtroom in the pantsuit while coverin…
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Date:
March 17, 1971
Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society