Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino

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.

Early life Minnie Josephine Reynolds was born in Norwood, New York in 1865. She was the fourth of six children born to Sarah Rood and Wait Reynolds, the latter of whom died in 1880. He was a farmer, She had an older sister Helen, a school teacher, who took on the responsibility of providing for and educating her siblings after their father died; her mother was an invalid. She also contributed to a newspaper in Aspen, Colorado. She had written a number of articles under the name M. J. Reynolds. The Rocky Mountain News hired her, assuming that she was a man. Accordingly, she moved to Denver in 1890 to work for the paper. When they saw that she was a woman, she was assigned as a society editor. After she became the editor of the women's page, she wrote political articles. See also: List of Colorado suffragists

Scalabrino ran for state legislature in 1894. A member of the Populist Party, she did well in the polls, but did not win the election. She supported civil rights for African Americans and labor unions. She led the effort to create libraries and circulating libraries under the auspices of the Women's Club of Denver. This was followed later by a traveling library for the State Federation of Women's Club, with Colorado the only state to win a national award for a library. She began writing about women's club activities for the newspaper. She also wrote "Ship Me Somewhere" in 1911 for The Times:

In New Jersey, she was a suffragist as well as secretary and state organizer for the Women's Political Union. and The Crayon Clue. She saw the women attaining the right to vote in Washington state, California, Arizona, Oregon, Kansas, and New York by 1917. She gave 100 speeches in the state of Washington alone and because she had built a national presence with her maiden name, she billed herself as Minnie Reynolds.

Personal life She had a new Victorian house at Broadway and Bayaud in Denver in the 1890s.

When she worked for The New York Times, she wrote a series of articles about Italy. During that time, she met Salvatore Scalabrino. becoming Minnie Reynolds Scalabrino. Scalabrino visited in Colorado in November 1910, and spent her final years on the Scalabrino's farm in New Jersey. Scalabrino was described by the University of Colorado Denver as a woman who "broke barriers as a female journalist and devoted her life to the fight for suffrage." In 2022, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.