Consuelo Zavala [SEP] date of death
Consuelo Zavala
Consuelo Zavala Castillo (1874-1956) was a Mexican feminist teacher, and founder of one of the first secular private schools in Mérida, Mexico. She is credited with establishing the first kindergarten to utilize the Froebel method in Mérida. She was the organizer of the First Feminist Congress in Mexico authorized by state governor Salvador Alvarado.
Biography.
Consuelo Zavala Castillo was born in 1874 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. She studied at the "Instituto Literario de Niñas" (ILN) (Literary Institute
Biography.
Antonia Georgina Alemania Jiménez Trava was born 25 February 1917 to Julio Jiménez Rivero and Pastora Trava Castilla in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. She was affectionately called "Toto". Her mother was a teacher at the "Instituto Literario de Niñas" (ILN) (Literary Institute for Girls) run by Rita Cetina Gutiérrez and Jiménez studied with one of Cetina's students, Consuelo Zavala at her Colegio de Consuelo Zavala.
In 1937, Jiménez became the first woman in Yucatán to sign as a witness for