Rebecca Hourwich Reyher

Reyher's mother, Lisa Jaffe Hourwich, was the daughter of a Ukrainian-Jewish school teacher.

[4] She traveled to Africa six times, with the first trip being in 1924, and this inspired two books, Zulu Woman (1948) and The Fon and His Hundred Wives (1952).

[2] She also wrote many articles about Africa, and contributed to Speaker for Suffrage and Petitioner for Peace, a memoir by Mabel Vernon.

[6] In 1937 she left America as part of the "Flying Caravan" of delegates of the People's Mandate Committee, which went to South America and was meant to urge ratification of the peace treaties adopted at the Buenos Aires Conference of 1936, and to create support for a petition demanding that governments reject war.

[2] Her daughter, Faith Reyher Jackson, followed in her footsteps as an author and journalist and was also a dancer, choreographer, and headmistress of the Academy of the Washington Ballet.

The members of the "Flying Caravan" of the People's Mandate Committee were bid goodbye by Sumner Welles at the State Department. In the photograph, left to right: Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Mrs. Ana Del Pulgar de Burke, Mrs. E.V. Frost, Mrs. Burton W. Musser, and Welles.