Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino
Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino | |
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Minnie J. Reynolds in 1895, History Colorado | |
| Born | Minnie Josephine Reynolds 1865 Norwood, New York, United States |
| Died | May 29, 1936 (aged 70–71) |
| Burial place | Family plot at Norwood, New York |
| Other names | M. J. Reynolds |
| Occupations | Journalist, suffragette, women's club organizer, book author |
| Known for | Leader in state and national campaigns that gave women the right to vote |
Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino (1865 – 1936) was an American journalist, women's rights activist, and organizer, founding the Denver Woman's Press Club and Denver Woman's Club. She advocated for equal rights, women's suffrage and temperance, something that she was devoted to for more than 30 years. She was instrumental in the passage of laws that gave women the right to vote at the state level, and then in 1920 for women throughout the United States.
She organized Denver and state libraries for the Women's Club of Denver and the State Federation of Women's Club. She wrote for the Rocky Mountain News about women's issues, society news, politics, and women's clubs activities. She wrote several books, her best is The Terror, a novel about the French Revolution.
She was married in 1905, but continued to use her maiden name Minnie J. Reynolds because that was what she had been known as for years.