Lucette Mazzella | |
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Born | Lucette Emma Gorré 6 May 1910 Albertville, France |
Died | 19 June 1987 Concarneau, France | (aged 77)
Other names | Lucette Mazella |
Occupation(s) | Teacher, communist organizer, women's rights activist |
Lucette Mazzella (6 May 1910 – 19 June 1987) was a teacher, communist organizer and women's rights activist in Algeria and Morocco. She taught school in French Morocco from 1929 until 1952, and then in French Algeria from 1954 to 1964. Mazzella was a co-founder of the Union des femmes du Maroc (Moroccan Women's Union) in 1944 and served as the organization's first secretary general. She was a delegate to the founding executive council for the Women's International Democratic Federation as a representative for Morocco in 1945.