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About Thel |
| A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Thel
Spencer spent thirty-two years in the Washington, D.C. area where
employment took
her to the headquarters of the National Woman's Party on Capitol
Hill. In 1977 she was Executive Secretary of the NWP, an organization
founded in 1913 by suffrage leader, Dr. Alice Paul, and dedicated
to securing for all American women the right to vote. After passage
of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Dr. Paul authored
the Equal Rights Amendment, which was introduced in Congress in 1923
and every year thereafter until the amendment was passed in 1972
by both houses and sent to the states for ratification. Spencer's
memoirs, The Book of Thel, includes exhilirating personal anecdotes
and memories of her involvment in the Women's Movement over the last
quarter-century. Spencer moved back to her native Missouri in 1981.
This was a return to the Ozarks she knew and loved as a child and
to the city of Springfield she grew to love in semi-retirement. After
twenty years, Thel dusted off her southern drawl and relocated to
Anderson, South Carolina, where she has found numerous interesting
citizens and leisure time to continue in her "Specialite les
Memoire." |
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