[Mervyn Anderson papers] 1956-1987.

League of Women Voters (Lawrence, Kan.)

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University Women's Club (University of Kansas)

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League of Women Voters of Kansas.

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The National League of Women Voters was formed by the National American Woman Suffrage Association in response to the anticipated victory of the Woman Suffrage movement, achieved in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. In 1919, NAWSA President Carrie Chapman Catt proposed the formation of an organization of women voters as a "mighty political experiment" aimed to help newly-enfranchised women exercise their responsibilities ...

Anderson, Mervyn, 1899-1996.

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Mervyn Anderson was born Nov. 16, 1899, in Creston, Iowa to Caleb Demuth and Daisy Vickers Agnew. She was married to Laurel Anderson from 1924 to 1972. They moved to Lawrence in 1927, where she studied and taught harp. She was a member of the League of Women Voters, serving as Kansas state president from 1957 to 1959 and as president of the Lawrence League of Women Voters from 1941-1943 and from 1956-1957. She was also a member of Lawrence's Friends in Council, Lawrence's Health Advisory Council...

Friends in Council (Lawrence, Kan.)

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Vietnam Summer (Organization)

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