Alma Lutz

Alma Lutz (1890-1973) was a feminist and activist for equal rights and woman suffrage. She was also the biographer of key women in the Feminist movement.

Alma Lutz was born in Jamestown, North Dakota to Mathilde (Bauer) and George Lutz.

She attended the Emma Willard School (class 1908) and then went to Vassar College. At Vassar she was active in the Feminist movement and after graduation in 1912 she went back to North Dakota where she continued campaigning for Women's suffrage.

Alma Lutz moved to Boston in 1918, where she attended the Boston University School of Business Administration, and she joined the National Woman's Party as one of their writers and at the same time specialized in biographies of women with a prominent role in American History. Activism and historical studies became her life-long interests.

In 1938 Lutz was appointed editor of the National Woman's Party's official organ. She was also a contributor of the The Christian Science Monitor and a member of the National Woman's Party's national council, a position she held for many years.

Other affiliations of Alma Lutz are: Schlesinger Library (advisory committee), Notable American Women (consultant), Massachusetts State Equal Rights Amendment Coalition (secretary).

Alma Lutz was a teacher at Radcliffe College where she held a graduate seminar on Women in American History.

At Vassar Alma Lutz met Marguerite Smith, her roommate. They both went to be National Woman's Party members and shared an house in Boston and a summer home, Highmeadow, in Berlin, New York, from 1918 until Smith's death in 1959. Friends from the National Woman's Party, Mabel Vernon and Consuelo Reyes-Calderon, used to spend summers at Highmeadow.

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