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...rule, the President himself reads the declaration, or entrusts it to a high-ranking Cabinet minister. Three weeks ago, when Independence Day came around once more. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos shattered tradition. For the first time in history, he had the Grito read by a woman: Amalia de Castillo Ledon, Mexico's leading feminist and the Under Secretary of Education for Cultural Affairs...
...Just before his Dec. 1 inauguration, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had a visit in his office from a resolute feminist named Amalia de Castillo Ledon. The conversation was brief and businesslike...
...Ruiz Cortines made good on his promise. As his first notable legislative gesture after naming the new cabinet, he sent to Congress a constitutional amendment designed to give Mexican women full citizenship rights, including the vote. Smiling down from the congressional gallery, as the proposal was read, was Amalia Ledon...
...Mexico's No. 1 suffragist and a golden-haired grandmother besides, tireless Amalia Ledon, 50, began her career as a fighter for women's rights by taking a degree at the University of Mexico back in the days when Mexican girls didn't do that sort of thing. For years, as a teacher and playwright, she preached to her often unheeding countrywomen that political action is the best way for women to beat such problems as low wage rates, legal discrimination and the double standard of morality. Moving abroad as a founder of the U.N. Commission...
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