Papers of Consuelo Reyes Calderón, 1969-1980, n.d.

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Papers of Consuelo Reyes Calderón, 1969-1980, n.d.

Collection includes slides, slide lists, scripts, and audiotapes for slideshows produced by Reyes Calderón on the women's suffrage movements in the United States and Great Britain: "Roots of Suffrage," "Our Friend Alma Lutz," "Alice Morgan Wright, Sculptor, Suffragist," and "A Meeting at the Cemetery." Also included are audiotapes containing a tribute to Mabel Vernon, a history of songs of the National Woman's Party, and information on feminist leaders. Narrators include Mabel Vernon and Fern Ingersoll.

1 folder, 202 slides, 8 audiotapes.

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National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Ingersoll, Fern S.

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Reyes Calderón, Consuelo.

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Consuelo Reyes Calderón was born in 1904 in San Jose, Costa Rica. She worked for 15 years in the Secretariat of the Apostolado de la Oración, and from 1942 to 1982, she lived in Washington, D.C., where she studied social service at Catholic University and was active in Catholic women's activities. Soon after arriving in Washington, she joined the People's Mandate Committee, where she met Mabel Vernon, with whom she shared an apartment beginning in 1951. From the description of Pape...

Vernon, Mabel

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Mabel Vernon was an active suffragist who participated in the Nevada suffrage campaign in 1914 and 1916 as Anne Martin's assistant, and served as her campaign manager in the 1918 and 1920 senatorial races. Afterward she returned to her work at the National Woman's Party, and became associated with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the People's Mandate to End Wars. From the description of Mabel Vernon papers, 1914-1920. (University of California, Berkeley). Wo...