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Women, Voting, & Dietrich
Women's history month A to Z: El Paso, TX
Overview
Community volunteers in El Paso, Texas gathered existing educational resources and created new short videos to assist in integrating March as Women's History Month into educational experiences for young people in Texas.
Introduction
Women's History Month is every March in El Paso, Texas.
These pages are in alphabetical order to make it easier to navigate. Each entry hopefully contains primary, secondary, and teaching resources about important women in the history of El Paso, Texas. Susan B. Barnum, Joseph Longo, and Eva Ross (see photo above) worked during COVID pandemic 2020-22 and after to compile resources. This website contains print resources and videos of local sites in our community named for women. In 2022 with the COVID pandemic still raging, the national theme was "Women providing health, promoting hope." Roughly 25 postcards honoring women in the health field were generated. Postcards apppear at end of this entry. Postcards designed by Susan B. Barnum were added in subsequent years.
"A" Lucy G. ACOSTA, Keitha ADAMS, Francisca "Dona Paca" ALARCON, Martha ARAT, Juana M. ASCARATE, Zacchia Jabalie AYOUB, Suzie AZAR etc,
Lucy ACOSTA, Member Texas Women's Hall of Fame,
LULÅC leader,Advocate for elders
Lucy G. Acosta (1926-2008) was a Mexican American activist in El Paso, TX who worked with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Lucy served on many community boards and co-founded Project Amistad in 1976.
Primary Resources
Oral History Interview No 653, ScholarsWork@UTEP
Secondary Resources
Wikipedia (has bibliography in references)
Texas Women's Hall of Fame, DIGIE (group photo)
Laura Condon, et.al, "Lucy Acosta's legacy continues in LULAC," EPCC Borderlands, Vol. 28, 2010-2011.
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press, 9780875654300. p. 29-30.
MS 447 Eva Ross Collection, UTEP Library Special Collections:
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 available through UTEP Library Special Collections
Acosta_Lesson_Plan_1_HaqWipq.docx
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Keitha ADAMS, Women's Basketball Coach at University of Texas at El Paso, member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Keitha Adams Returning as UTEP Women's Basketball Head Coach, 2023
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Francisca Dona Paca ALARCON
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
"Dona Paca," El Paso Times, Sept. 13, 2000: 1A.
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso, (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 53-54.
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Martha ARAT Artist
Primary Sources
Special Collections UTEP Library Scholarswork MS454
Secondary Sources
Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, Grace and Gumption, The Women of El Paso, TCU Press, p. 6-11.
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Juana M. ASCARATE
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Susan B. Mayfield, "Tribute to Juana Azcarate de Stephenson," Password, El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. 40, No. 1, El Paso,Texas, Spring, 1995, p. 23-25.
Hugh B. Dwyer, "Juana Stephenson, First El Paso Woman Settler, Died 100 Years Ago," El Paso Times
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Zacchia Jabalie AYOUB, businesswoman, El Paso, TX
Secondary Sources
Frontera: Businesswomen/Entrepreneurs
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1.
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Suzie AZAR, entrepreneur, aviatix, only female mayor of El Paso as of 2024
Suzie Azar was the first and only female mayor of El Paso,TX as of 2024. She held office from 1989 to 1991. Under her administration several environmental issues were addressed. One of her first acts as mayor was to sign paperwork to help create the Franklin Mountain State Park. Azar is also a flight instructor and a member of the women's pilot organization, the Ninety-Nines. She was inducted into the El Paso Women's Hall of Fame in 2005. Azar donated her records MS436 to Special Collections UTEP Library.
Primary Resources:
Scholarswork Guide to MS436 Suzanne S. Azar papers at UTEP Library Special Collections
EPCC Interview video, Flight school video, DIGIE photograph
Guide to MS348 El Paso Herald-Post Collection at UTEP Library Special Collections
Holden Lewis, "El Paso Mayoral Runoff Slips Into Mud," May 26, 1989, The Odessa American.
Secondary Resources:
Eva Ross Collection on El Paso Women MS 447 at UTEP Library Special Collections
100 Years of Women at UTEP published by Texas Western Press, p. 59,
Mary Margaret Davis, "Many Events Planned for Women's History Month," El Paso Times, February 27, 1991 second page (notice anything about the picture?)
Teaching Resources:
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol.1, and Vol. 2 available thruough UTEP Library Special Collections
American Aviatrixes: Women with Wings, Queen of the Air a children's book.about Katherine Stinson, another TX aviatrix.
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"B" Eve BALL, Alice P. BERRY, Drury BIRD, Anita BLAIR, "Buffy" BOESEN SL, Julia North BRECK, Kate M. BROWN, Iris BURNHAM,Sharon BUTTERWORTH, etc.
Eve Ball, American historian, specializing in the history of the Apache.
Primary Sources:
Simmons, Marc. "Stubborn Author Rescued, Preserved NM frontier." El Paso Times. April 10, 1983.
Secondary Sources:
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Alice Pierce BERRY
Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft) El Paso County Historical Society
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Drury BIRD, Deputy constable and animal rights advocate
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Anita Lee BLAIR and her seeing eye dog, Fawn,
State Representative, advocate for the blind
Anita Lee Blair (1916-2010) was the first blind woman elected to a state legislature in the US. She was also the first person in El Paso, TX to have a service dog. Her dog was a German shepherd named Fawn. Anita served one term in the Texas House of Representatives in 1952. Independent throughout her life, she is buried in Texas State Cemetery.
Primary resources:
UTEP Library Special Collections MS 605
Secondary resources:
Gary Scharrer, "Woman wouldn't trade life," El Paso Times, Dec 26, 1985, p. 1B.
El Paso County Historical Society has info on Anita Lee Blair
Teaching Resources:
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II p.8
Anita_Blair_and_Louise_Dietrich_iZFUYZI.docx
An Ode to Autumn by an author in the spring of her career ( Helen Keller) lesson plan from Library of Congress
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Buffy Boesen, former president Loretto Academy in El Paso, TX. In 2024 she was chosen to be president of the worldwide Loretto Community.
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
Loretto Magazine
Teaching Resources,
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II
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Julia Spalding North BRECK, Early female candidate for mayor, El Paso, TX
Primary Resources
"City of golden sun presents plans for large AAUW Convention," El Paso Herald-Post, March 24, 1962.
"Mrs. Breck Elected, El Paso Herald-Post, Ap 29, 1968.
Prich Matthews, "Mrs. Breck capable in community," July 31, 1953.
Secondary Resources
Claudia Rivers of UTEP library archives did slide show on Julia Spalding North Breck
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Carolyn Breck wrote up biography for Hall of Fame of El Paso County Historical Society about Julia
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Kate Moore Brown, Civic Leader, Musician, Teacher,
Prmary Resources
photos on digie.org
Secondary Resources
"Kate Moore Brown: A Woman of Many Firsts, Borderlands, publication of El Paso Community College, Vol. 30, p.12.
Ynes Christie, "The Woman's Club of El Paso Texas," Southwestern Clubwoman, (February, 1953), p. 2.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book VOL 1, Scholarswork at UTEP Library
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Iris BURNHAM Educator, Activist,
Secondary Sources
David Crowder, "Education Innovator, Iris Burnham retires, El Paso INC, Ap 27 2015.
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Sharon Butterworth civic leader, mental health advocate
Primary Resources
Secondary resources
Tracy Yellen, "Butterworth dedicated..." El Paso Times, May 9, 2019, p. 6A.
Carol Viescas,"Volunteerism," El Paso Times, Ap 2,1981, p. 8J.
"C" Marlena Cano, Kathleen CARDONE, Mother Praxedes Susan CARTY, Alicia CHACON, Herlinda Wong CHEW, Linda Y. CHEW, Selfa A. Chew, Martha COTERA, etc.
Malena Cano, music artist, ranchera singer El Paso, TX
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
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Kathleen CARDONE, federal judge in El Paso, TX
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
YWCA Profile: "Children cope with divorce program drew newcomer," El Paso Times, May 20, 2009, p. 2D & 10D.
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Mother Praxedes CARTY, visionary leader, educator,
See PRAXEDES
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Alicia CHACON, Texas Women's Hall of Fame,Political Pathmaker,Business Woman
Room in County Courthouse of El Paso, TX recently named for her. 4.4.2022
Primary Sources
UT Arlington Center for Mexican American Studies,
Secondary Sources
Oscar J.Martinez, LatinX El Paso, Trego Hill Publications, El Paso, TX, 2021, p. 81-82.
Google Maps: Location
Victoria Rossi, "El Paso Trailblazer: she opened..," El Paso Matters, March 22, 2022.
“Chacon to get MALDEF achievement award,”El Paso Times, Sept. 13, 2013.
“Alicia Chacon’s National Honor,” El Paso Times, editorial, Sept. 16, 2013.
“Chacon plans ambitious…,” El Paso Times, Ap 25, 1996, p. 1B.
Carol Viescas, “Family boosts Alicia Chacon,” El Paso Times, July 24 1975, p. 4C.
“Chacon resigns YISD seat,” El Paso Times, March 1, 1978.
“Chacon is mum,” El Paso Herald Post, July 15, 1978.
Tom Butler,” Hatchet job alleged,” El Paso Times, July 15, 1978.
Jane Pemberton, “Chacon form mixup revealed,” El Paso Herald-Post, July 18, 1978.
Jane Pemberton, “Mrs. Chacon recertified for job,” El Paso Herald-Post, Aug. 24, 1978.
“Alicia Chacon returning to El Paso,” El Paso Times, Mar 28 1979, p. 1A.
“Chacon, Women ‘fast catching up’, El Paso Times, May 18, 1979.
“Mrs. Chacon has experience,” El Paso Times, editorial, Mar 22, 1983.
“Chacon tries for 2nd term,” El Paso Times, Jan 21, 1985.
“Alicia Medina, “Alica Chacon faces ‘Great Bureaucracy’, El Paso Times, Sept. 17, 1985
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol. I available ScholarsWork@UTEPthrough UTEP Library
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Herlinda Wong CHEW, businesswoman, immigration expert, linguist
Herlinda Wong Chew was born in Guadalajara,Mexico. She was of Chinese and Mexican heritage. She and her husband, Antonio, opened a grocery store in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The Chews also opened the New China Grocery in El Paso, TX. Digital wall at El Paso Museum of History contains photo of store. Family lived at 1912 Yandell St. El Paso, TX.
On a visit to China, Herlinda met Mexican women who had been abandoned by their Chinese husbands. She was able to help some of the women and their families return to Mexico.
Primary Resorces
Secondary Resources:
Digie (1935),
Wikipedia
The Chews," Generation XYZ: Texas Bar Journal, May 2014.
PBS program - The Chinese Exclusion Act,
Archivegrid, Texas Women's University
Irwin A. Tang, Asian Texans, Our histories and our lives, p. 63 & 375, ISBN978-0-9679433-7-4
"How Women Shaped Frontier Texas" Austin American Statesman, March 29, 1996,
"Heroines on Horseback," Austin American Statesman, March 29, 1996.
"Chinese Chronicles" El Paso Times, February 20, 2000."
Early Chinese Immigration to the U.S.
Building the First Transcontinental Railroad
Teaching Resources:
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol I available electronically through UTEP Library Special Collections.
Children's book Coolies
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Linda Yee Chew, Judge 327th District Court
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
The Chews," Generation XYZ: Texas Bar Journal. May 2014.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2 from UTEP Library Special Collections,
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Selfa A. Chew Ph.D
Dr. Selfa Chew-Melendez holds a PhD in Borderlands History from The University of Texas at El Paso. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Science from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, an MA in History, and her MFA in Creative Writing from UTEP.
She studied Fine Arts at Pasadena City College and the Art Center College of Design. She was a Smithsonian Fellow in the Latino Image Representations and Interpretation Institute. Her work (poetic, graphic, narrative, and editorial) has been published in Peru, Spain, Argentina, Mexico, China, the Nederland’s, and the United States. She received the Voces al Sol award by the Universidad Autónoma de Cd. Juárez in 2015 for her work as a playwright.
Dr. Chew’s research focuses on racial relations, the Asian and African diasporas, and World War II. She is currently Associate Professor of Instruction at the Department of History, and the African American Studies Program. Her latest publication Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S. - Mexico Borderlands, was awarded an International Latino Book Award, and the Southwest Book Award, in 2017. She is a doctoral candidate/ABD in the program in Sociocultural Foundations of Education Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's Coloring Book VOL. 2 p.11 available online via Special Collections UTEP Library
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Martha COTERA, Chicana feminist/writer/ librarian
Martha P. Cotera attended El Paso High School in El Paso, TX. She is a librarian, and scholar. She was influential in the Chicana Feminist movement and wrote books on the topic. Martha attended the 1977 National Women's Conference in Houston. She was the keynoter at a conference forty years later, delivering the Mc Govern Lercture to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the National Women's Conference (NWC). She was also featured in the documentary, Las Mujeres de la Caucus Chicana.
Primary Sources:
Oral History file and transcript,
Las Mujeres Trailer: Martha Cotera,
Secondary Sources:
Autumn Rendall, "Feminists Reunite at National Women's Conference Anniversary, "
Archie Waters, "Hispanic women rewrite history with their achievements," El Paso Times, Oct 8, 1998, Lower Valley supplement, p. 3.
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Belle Christie CRITCHETT, suffragist, teacher, political activist
Belle Christie Ferguson Critchett (c. 1868 -1956) was an activist and a suffragist in El Paso, TX. Belle worked with the Texas Equal Suffrage Association (TESA) and also supported the temperance movement. Belle worked to include Mexican American and African American women in El Paso in the women's suffrage movment.
After women earned the right to vote, Belle became president of the League of Women Voters of El Paso. She is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Primary Resources
Letter, Feb. 1,1919 from Texas State Senator R. M. Dudley to Belle C. Critchett is in UTEP Library Special Collections
UTEP Library Special Collections Finding Aid MS 386
Secondary Resources
Abbie Weiser, "Looking Within:Discovering Women's Organizations, "
Password, quarterly publication of El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. 64, No. 2, El Paso, Texas, Summer, 2020.
Teaching Resources
Suffrage Stratgies:Voices for Votes, National Archives lesson plans, one week
Capital Women, 4th, Complete Lesson Plan
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II p. 12 available electronically through UTEP Library Special Collections
"D" Marcia H. DAUDISTEL, Ouisa DAVIS, Myrna G. DECKERT, Alzina Orndorff De GROFF, A. Louise DIETRICH, Juana Marquez DOWELL,Eleanor DUKE Ph.D, etc.
Marcia Hatfield DAUDISTEL, Editor, Author
Marcia Hatfield Daudistel helped publish over seventy books as the former assiciate director of Texas Western Press. She was a presenter at the 200k9 Texas Book Festival. She presented at 2011 annual meeting of Texas State Historical Assn.
Primary Sources
Secondary Resouces
"New Exhibit features..." www.elpasoINC.com, Feb 22-28, 2015
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Ouisa DAVIS, immigration attorney, civil rights activist, editorial writer
Primary Sources
"Ouisa Davis, "Want peace and justice? Start with yourself," El Paso Times, Dec 31, 2010, p. 7B.
Ouisa Davis, "Get involved in running a government," El Paso Times, June 12, 2013, p.7B.
"Ouisa Davis, "Time for us to redefine patriotism," El Paso Times, June 28, 2013, p. 7B.
"Davis column downplays violation of the law," Letter to editor, El Paso Times, Dec 31, 2013, p. 3B.
Ouisa Davis, "LULAC planning another powerful women's conference," El Paso Times, Oct 25, 2013, p. 7B.
Ouisa Davis, "Malala's story speaks volumes about public education," El Paso Times, Oct 1, 2013, p. 7B.
Ouisa Davis, "Holidays bring different schedules for child custody," El Paso Times, Nov 22, 2013, p. &B.
Ouisa Davis, "El Pasoans should vote in midterms," El Paso Times, Oct. 31, 2014, p. 5 B.
Ouisa Davis, "Pay attention to judicial races, " El Paso Times, Feb. 14, 2014, p. 5B.
Ouisa Davis, "How you can help those facing domestic violence," El Paso Times, Mar 13, 2015, p. 5B.
Ouisa Davis,"Villegas Case points to need for judicial reform," El Paso Times, Ap 3, 2015, editorial page.
Ouisa Davis, "Abuse victims, do not be afraid to call for help," El Paso Times, Jan 26, 2018: 6A.
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
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Myrna George DECKERT, YWCA executive, member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, non profit administrator,
Myrna George Deckert for many years oversaw the growth of the YWCA El Paso del Norte Region. After serving as CEO of the YWCA for 32 years, Myrna continued as an executive, first with the Paso Del Norte Group, and later the Paso del Norte Health Foundation. She died in 2020. A street in east El Paso,TX is named for her. The YWCA continues to provide much needed family programs, fitness opportunities, child care, housing and more.
Primary Sources
Myrna Deckert YWCA in Northeast El Paso, TX Google Maps: Location
"Humble Heroine", El Paso Times, August 25, 1993.
"Longtime city leader Deckert dies at 83," El Paso Times Sept. 15, 2020, p. 1A & 4A
"A tribute to Myrna J. Deckert," El Paso INC, Sept 20-26, 2020.
David Crowder, "El Paso icon Myrna Deckert has died," EL PASO Inc. Sept 13-19, 2020, p. 6A.
Heather Coons, "Myrna Deckert, Advancing El Paso's Business, City Beat Magazine, Nov-Dec. 2014, p. 7. www.citybeat.us
Maria Cortes Gonzalez, "Celebration of life planned for Deckert," El Paso Times, June 2, 2021: 3A.
Secondary Sources
El Paso County Historical Society, Women Who Forged El Paso Draft booklet
Centennial of YWCA 2009 articles in El Paso Times about El Paso women who supported work of YWCA
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Alzina "Mama De" Allis Orndorff DE GROFF, suffragist, businesswoman in El Paso, TX, hotelier
Primary Resources
Secondary Sources
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Betsy Hagans, "Mama De's Vision," Password, quarterly of El Paso County Historical Society,
Vol.XXVII, No. 1.
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A. Louise DIETRICH, nurse leader in El Paso TX, suffragist
A. Louise Dietrich (1878-1962) came to El Paso, Texas in 1902 and stayed to help with an epidemic of typhoid fever in the city. She spent a lifetime improving nursing in Texas as a profession. She helped found a local mothers' hospital and also was active as a suffragist. She started the first nurses' registry in Texas and founded the El Paso Graduate Nurse Association. She and Miss Emily D. Greene operated the Baby Sanatarium in Cloudcroft, NM for eight years. Later she was president of the Texas League of Women Voters.
Primary Sources:
UTEP Library Special Collections Finding Aid Graduate Nurse Coll. MS 276
The Caregivers, published by Sundance Press, 1999, p. 165, 248.
United States Veterans Administrator Master Index, 1917-1940 attached to Emily Dana Greene 1875-1969 G32W789
"Urges Women to Vote Today," El Paso Times, August 23, 1952.
Secondary Sources:
History of Texas Board of Nursing,
Password, El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. 64, No. 2, El Paso,Texas, Summer, 2020, p.62-63.
Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History photos of earliest Providence Hospital in El Paso
Teaching Resources:
Book Be a Nurse Like Me
Suffrage Strategies: Voices for Votes
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Douglass High School, El Paso, TX Female Alumnae
El Paso, TX had a segregated public school system, and Douglass Grammar and High School served the African American community. Douglass Grammar and High School was built in 1891 and closed in 1920. A new Douglass School was built in 1920 and this original buildingin the Segundo Barrio was sold.
1941 Alums of Douglass on digie.org
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Juana Marquez Dowell , Tigua, Early El Paso Pioneer, wife of mayor
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
Wikipedia?
Concordia Cemetery?
El Paso County Historical society?
Digital wall El Paso Museum of History,
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Rufina Eva Ducre, Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
Primary Sources
75(R) SR 463 Shapleigh of TX
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Eleanor Lyon DUKE Ph.D. UTEP Biology Professor
Eleanor Lyon Duke (1918-2013) was a leader in the fight for equal pay for women at the University of Texas at El Paso. The efforts to gain woman's suffrage in the US were peaking the year she was born. She was the Outstanding Ex-student of UTEP in 1971. Dr. Duke worked many years as a professor of biology at the UTEP. In 1979 Eleanor filed a lawsuit against UTEP for sex discrimination, stating that she and other female faculty were discriminated in terms of pay, promotion, and teaching opportunities. She won the suit after a lengthy legal battle. As a student, alumnae, and professor emerita she showed that she valued both justice and education. By the time she died, women in El Paso, TX and at UTEP were in key leadership positions.
Primary Resources
UTEP Library Special Collections has Finding Aid SPC Manuscripts MS 205
Adventures in Academe written by E. Duke are in her collection.
Secondary Resources
NOVA, the UTEP Magazine, 1974,
100 Years of Women at UTEP published by Texas Western Press, p. 48.
Teaching Resource
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II available through UTEP Library, Special Collections
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Margaret Dupont, Tennis Legend,
Primary Sources
Obit, New York Times
Irv Prell, "Tennis took women around the world," El Paso Times, Sept 15, 1994 p. 2 west
Secondary Sources
YWCA profile 2009 El Paso Times, p. D1
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Martha DURON Hernandez, member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
El Paso Inc. Business Weekly Sept 27, 2011
"E" Willarda EDWARDS M.D, Blanca E. ENRIQUEZ, Elvira V. ESCAJEDA, Veronica ESCOBAR,
Willarda EDWARDS, MD
Secondary Resources
Alicia Ault, "Physician Sues AMA for Defamation...," Jan 19,2023
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Blanca ENRIQUEZ, Director of Office for Headstart, Early childhood education advocate
Primary Sources
"From the barrio to the nation's capitol," Prospector, Jan 19, 2016.
Secondary Sources
El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
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Elvira ESCAJEDA, activist in Chamizal Settlement, Community advocate,
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Handbook of TX
"Elvira Villa Escajeda"
"Chamizal Dispute"
Alana De Hinojosa, "El Chamizal, An Unfinished Story," Password, publication of El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. 65, No. 3, El Paso, TX, Fall 2021.
Teaching Resources
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Veronica ESCOBAR, Latina Congresswoman from El Paso, TX
Veronica Escobar serves as the United States representative for the 16th Congressional District of Texas. Veronica previously served as a county commissioner and then County Judge in El Paso, TX. Veronica is an alumnae of the University of Texas at El Paso. She has written editorials for the New York Times. She was in U.S. Capital during insurrection 2021.Primary Resources
"Rep. Escobar Calls for Immigration Reform..." (January 10, 2019 video)
New York Times editorials
"All Quiet on the Southern Front," guest editorial by Veronica Escobar, New York Times, Oct 5, 2011.
"Gridlock on the Rio Grande," 2013
"Why the Border Crisis is a Myth", 2014.
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia, bibliography in references
"Veronica Escobar, Sylvia Garcia are the First Texas Latinas Elected to Congress," El Paso Times, Nov 6, 2018.
Angel Kocherga, "El Paso Congresswoman recounts mob attack," KTEP, Jan 7, 2021.
"Escobar's speech in favor of impeachment," El Paso Times, Dec 18, 2019.
"Questionnaire: Veronica Escobar, Candidate for Congressional District 16," El Paso Times, October 12, 2020.
Daniel Borunda, "Escobar: Stimulus to aid workers, families, " El Paso Times, March 17, 2020 p. 9A.
Eleanor Dearman, "Escobar, Armendariz-Jackson vie for US District 16," El Paso, Times, Oct 14, 2020, p. 1A & 11A.
"I Represent El Paso. What I'm Asking For Doesn't Include Open Borders," March 24, 2021.
"Anti Escobar PAC fails," El Paso Times, Feb 18, 2015.
"Ex candidates sue Veronica," El Paso Times, Mar 18, 2015.
"Escobar easily wins," El Paso Times, Mar 7, 2017.
Daniel Borunda, "State of County speech," El Paso Times, Sept 28, 2017.
Letter to editor, "Attacks on Veronica..." El Paso Times, Mar 4, 2018: 6A.
Molly Smith, "Escobar leads field hearings," El Paso Times, Sept. 7, 2019:1A.
Lauren Villagran, "Escobar, Smith tour new fence," El Paso Times, Oct 9, 2019:1A.
Secondary Resources
100 Years of Women at UTEP published by Texas Western Press, p. 72.
Teaching resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol. 2, UTEP Library, Special Collections digital copy
Veronica Escobar talking about the El Paso Women's History Coloring Book
"F" Cynthia FARAH Haines, Hana FARAH, FARAH Strikers, Maria Elena FLOOD, Josephine Clardy FOX, Barbara FUNKHOUSER
Cynthia Weber FARAH Haines, Writer, Photographer, Community Volunteer,
Primary Sources
Oral history Interview Scholarswork interview #1616, UTEP Library archives
Oral History 1975
Oral History 2007
Cynthia Farah Haines papers UTEP Library MS319 Special Collections
Cynthia Farah Haines papers (CA) Cynthia Farah Haines papers (Stanford)
Google Maps: Location
Secondary Sources
Teaching Resources
Lesson Plan Cynthia_Farah_L.P.2.docx
El Paso Women's Coloring Book, Vol II available through Scholarswork UTEP Library
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Hana FARAH, Businesswoman
Primary Sources Oral History
Secondary Sources
Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, Editor, Grace and Gumption, The Women of El Paso, TCU Press, p. 204-209.
Evan Haywood Antone wrote biography of her son Willie Farah. It includes info on Hana.
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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Farah Strikers, Labor Activism in El Paso, TX
The Farah Strike took place between 1972 and 1974 at the Farah Manufacturing Company in El Paso, Texas. The strike first began at the San Antonio plant and was led by Chicana, Sylvia M. Trevino. The strike included more than 4,000 workers, most of whom were women. Strikers wanted job security, benefits, better job conditions, and higher pay.Primary Sources
Civil Rights in Black and Brown, Peralta/ Farah Strike, Marin/Farah Strike (in Spanish).
UTEP Special Collections Oral History Scholarswork
Interview #1605 of Emma Acosta who worked at Farah, who later became city rep and ran for Mayor
"Farah Strike ends after 21 months," New York Times, February 25, 1974.
"El Paso Clothing Worker Tours Area to Gather Support for Farah Strike," El Paso Times (May 15, 1973)
Digital Wall at El Paso Museum of History downtown has photos
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia, includes good bibliography
"Farah, Incorporated," Handbook of Texas, Myra Zantell,
Jensen, Joan M. & Sue Davidson, A Needle, A Bobbin, A Strike (1984) Temple University Press. (availble open access from JSTOR)
UTEP Library Special Collections, Chicano Vertical Files,
Coyle, Laurie, Gail Hershatter & Emily Honig
Women at Farah: An Unfinished Story (1979). copy available at El Paso Public Library, Border Heritage Center.
El Paso County Historical Society has notes from Evan Antone's book William Farah, Industrialist.
Teaching Resources
Bread and Roses Strike of 1912
"Teaching Women's History: The El Paso Laundry Strike of 1919"
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol 1 & Vol. 2 p. 16 available electronically from UTEP Library Special Collections
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Maria Elena Acevedo FLOOD, Member Texas Women's Hall of Fame, Educator,
A native of El Paso, TX Maria Elena Flood worked as a health educator and served on the Texas State Board of Education. She was the Project Director for the Texas Tech Area Health Education Center and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. She is a member of the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.
Primary Sources
Oral History 2 hour interview available through UTEP Library Scholarswork interview no. 820.
El Paso Herald-Post collection,MS 348, UTEP Library, Special Collections,
UTEP Library, Special Collections,MS 447 Eva Ross Collection
Bank of the West announces nomination
Mentioned in this oral history of Jose Manuel De La Rosa
Secondary Sources
Kimball, Rene. "Mother of the Year Compares America to 'Tapestry' Not 'Melting Pot' Nation." El Paso Times (May 10, 1977).
"Maria Elena Flood to Receive Teachers' Humanitarian Award." El Paso Times, May 26, 1985.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol.1 avalilabe through UTEP Library Scholarswork.
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Josephine Clardy FOX, Businesswoman, Philanthropist
Josephine Marsalis Clardy Fox (1881-1970) was an El Paso, TX businesswoman, philanthropist, musician, and hat enthiusiast. Her home was once at 1119 Montana Street.
She studied music in her youth and later invested in business. The Fox Fine Arts building on the UTEP campus is named for her. She created Fox Plaza Shopping Center. Josephine donated land for a children's home, donated land for both a school and a public library. Her collection, including her many hats, is housed at UTEP Library, Special Collections.
Primary Sources
Available in her collection at UTEP Library Special Collections Scholarswork
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso, (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 128-133.
Fox Fine Arts Center at UTEP, Clardy Fox Library, El Paso, TX , Fox Plaza Shopping Center
Secondary Sources
Curlee, Kendall. "Fox, Jesephine Marsalis Clardy" Handbook of Texas Online.
NOVA (1970) "Josephine Clardy Fox",
Burns, Ruby. (1973) "Josephine Clardy Fox: Traveler, Opera-goer, Collector of Art, Benefactor" published by Texas Western Press.
100 Years of Women at UTEP, published Texas Western Press, p. 42
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol. 2.
___________________________________________Jeanie M. FRANK, Pioneer El Paso High Teacher
Secondary Sources
Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft), El Paso County Historical Society
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 88-89.
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Babara FUNKHOUSER, Newspaper Editor, author
Primary Sources
Paul Vargas, "Barbara Funkhouser: A Chronicle..." Borderlands flipbook
"G" Mago Orona GANDARA, Alicia GASPAR de Alba, Ana GIL, Mimi GLADSTEIN Ph.D. ,Octavia GLASGOW, Mary Edna GONZALEZ,Christine GRANADOS, Rosa Ramirez GURRERO, Gertrude A. "Sugar" GOODMAN, etc.
Mago Orona Gándara, Borderlands Artist
Mago Orona Gándara (1929-2018) was a Chicana artist who created murals and sculptures throughout Ciudad Juarez and El Paso,Texas. She graduated from Loretto Academy in 1946. Manuel Acosta painted her portrait.Primary Resources
Scholarswork at UTEP Library Special Collections Mago Orona Gandara Collection MS 584
Secondary Resources
Olvera, Joe. "The Hispana Artist." El Paso Times, January 14, 1990.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 available from UTEP Library Special Collections Scholarswork
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Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Chicanx author, scholar
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia
Dalilia Limon, "Alicia Gaspara de Alba: the Voice of Activism," Borderlands flipbook
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Ana L. GIL Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, Construction manager
Google Maps: Location
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Mimi Reisel GLADSTEIN Ph.D. Author, professor, University of Texas at El Paso
Named to El Paso Women's Hall of Fame in 2011.
First director of Women's Studies Program at UTEP.
Wrote The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of Jose Antonio Burciaga.
Primary Sources
Gladstein Mimi Reisel and Sylvia Deemer Cohen, The Wild West Welcomes Holocaust Survivors, Lone Stars of David, Brandeis University Press, Waltham, MA, 2007, p. 239-254.
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso, (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press, 9780875654300. p. 220.
Charles H. Martin and Rebecca M.Carter, editor, Diamond Days, Texas Western Press, El Paso, TX, 1991.
El Paso County Historical Society, Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Teaching Resources
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Octavia GLASGOW (1900-1986) Historic preservationist, artist, educator
Octavia Magoffin Glasgow born Dec 30,1900 in El Paso, TX was the second child of Josephine Magoffin Glasgow and Brigadier Gen. William J. Glasgow. Josephine was nicknamed “The Admiral” by her husband. Their daughter Octavia, affectionately nicknamed “Tia”, lived in Magoffin Home in El Paso, TX all of her life. She never married. She was last family member to live in that historic territorial style home.
Octavia “Tia" was an accomplished artist. She associated with Urbici Soler, Christo Rey sculptor. About 1940 she taught Manuel Acosta as a student at Bowie High in the Segundo Barrio. She also taught at Radford School for Girls. A portrait of “Tia” by her lifetime artist friend Leona Freeman is in Homestead. Perhaps due to close connections of family with U.S. Army, for 20 years Octavia later was a librarian at Ft. Bliss.
“Tia” traveled extensively throughout life. In 1931 she was living with and serving as hostess for her brother Wm. J. Glasgow Jr. In 1931 he was stationed in Tientsin, China. Her sister Harriet Magoffin Lucker met her husband Harry there. “Tia" had a major role in raising the children of her sister Harriet who sadly died of TB at an early age.
Octavia assisted her mother in hosting often elaborate events for civic and military groups when they visited. “Tia” was an exemplary hostess and frequently extended hospitality as a member of the family during her life tenure in the Magoffin Home. She was active in Pan American Roundtable, El Paso County Historic Society, Los Commadres, and other civic & cultural groups. Octavia was raised as a faithful Catholic. She attended mass daily during entire adult life. She may have entered a convent in Washington D.C. but left after a conflict.
“Tia” was instrumental in the negotiations between the surviving children (Joseph, Ed, and Octavia) in selling the Magoffin Home to the City of El Paso and State of Texas in 1976. The opening of the home was a major event in El Paso, Texas in 1976 the Bicentennial year of the USA.
She was involved in many events promoting the new status of the residence. She and her niece, Isabel P. Glasgow, supported the growth of Los Companeros, auxiliary to the Home. She lived in the home at that time and retained life tenancy. She died in the family's home July 18,1986. She is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
Primary Sources
Obit
Secondary Sources
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 available from UTEP Library Archives
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Betty Mary Smith GOETTING, Women's Health Advocate, Librarian
Primary Sources
Betty Mary Smith Goetting Papers are in Scholarswork of Library University of Texas at El Paso.
Secondary Sources
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol 1. on line at Scholarswork at UTEP Special Collections
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Mary Edna GONZALEZ, State Representative DISTRICT 75, El Paso, TX
PRIMARY SOURCES
Lauren Mc Gaughy, "5 Women representatives form Texas' first LGBTQ caucus," Dallas Morning News, Jan 11, 2019: 3B.
Mary Gonzalez, "Expand Medicare to protect Texans," El Paso Times, Dec 8, 2013.
State Rep. Mary Gonzalez "Put children first in Texas border crisis,"Commentary, El Paso Times, July 23, 2014 :3B.
"El Paso dairies may have another chance," El Paso Times, Jan 14, 2014:5B.
Joe Nick Patoski, opinion,"Mary Gonzalez butts into Hays County water issue," El Paso Times, May 31, 2015.
"Zombie Lots," El Paso Times, May 5, 2015.
"Marty Schladen, "Rep. Gonzalez gets 1st bill through committee," El Paso Times, Feb 19, 2015: 1B.
"Gonzalez says education, agriculture priorities," El Paso Times, Jan 31, 2016: 1B.
"Gonzalez elected Caucus vice chair," El Paso INC, Dec. 18-24, 2016:4A.
Arlinda Valencia, "Mary Gonzalez is true friend of education," El Paso Times, Feb 2, 2016: 5A.
Madlin Mekelberg, "Gonzalez reflects on service," El Paso Times, June 30, 2018: 1A.
"Gonzalez deserves another term," Edtorial, El Paso Times, Feb. 21, July 2018: 6A.
Eleanor Dearman, " State Rep. Gonzalez seeks to retain her post," El Paso Times, Aug. 30, 2019, p. 10A.
SECONDARY SOURCES
Wikipedia
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II from Special Collections UTEP Library
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Gertrude Amelia "Sugar" GOODMAN 1924-2016 Civic Leader, Humanitarian
Primary Sources
Her papers are available at Scholarswork MS 599 UTEP Library Special Collections
Border Heritage Collection of El Paso Main Library Downtown El Paso, TX has some of her papers.
Secondary Sources
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Photos on El Paso Museum of History Digital Wall
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Christine GRANADOS, Author
Primary Sources
Interview, Words on a Wire, KTEP Radio, Oct. 27, 2017.
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Rosa Ramirez GUERRERO, Member Texas Women's Hall of Fame, Performing Artist, Educator, Hispana Advocate
Primary Sources
Google Maps: Location
Secondary Sources
Texas Archive of the Moving Image,
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Timi Haggerty, "Legacy of wisdom and grace,"Nova Quarterly, Fall 1997.
Paul Hoylen Jr. "The Arts of Rosa Guerrero,"Las Fronteras, Nov. 1993.
Joe Olvera, "El Paso Treasure," El Paso Times, Nov 14, 1993.
Deborah Martin, "Busy retirement," El Paso Herald-Post, Accent, Aug 16, 1990.
Robbie Farley-Villalobos, "Rosa's Mom..." El Paso Herald-Post, Accent magazine, July 2,1992.
Betty Ligon, Art Scene, El Paso Herald-Post, Accent magazine, May 25, 1995.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol. 1 available through Scholarswork UTEP Library
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"H" Nancy M. HAMILTON, Jennifer HAN, Polly HARRIS, Mary R. HAYNES, Marta Duron HERNANDEZ, Jan HERRING, Tillie HOWARD, Connie HULBERT, HOUCHEN Center, etc.
Nancy M. HAMILTON, Author, Historian, Art Collector,
Primary Sources
Scholarswork UTEP Library Special Collections has her collection MS 314.
Secondary Resources
Obit
Nova magazine of UTEP
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History has photos.
El Paso Women's Hall of Fame on Wikipedia.
Books written by Nancy Hamilton
Ben Dowell: El Paso's First Mayor
UTEP: A Pictorial History
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Jennifer HAN, Boxer, Athlete, Businesswoman,
Primary Resources
Newspapers in El Paso sports,
Secondary Sources
Aguilar, Matthew, "Han Has Mama Power." El Paso Times, Sept. 4, 2021.
Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History
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Polly HARRIS, City Representative, Feminist, Advocate for the elderly
Polly Harris (1924-1987) was a well respected co-owner of a public relations firm in El Paso, TX. Polly was a City Council representative. She was known as a civic volunteer, actress, politician, and feminist. Polly was beloved in the community and advocated for elders in the community. A senior center on El Paso's westside is named for her. She is buried in the Jewish section of Concordia Cemetery.
Primary Resources
Special Collections UTEP Library El Paso- Herald-Post collection MS 348
Secondary Resources
Wikipedia, Polly Harris obituary, Google Maps Polly Harris Senior Center
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II p. 20 available electronically from UTEP Library Special Collections
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Mary Rapstine HAYNES, Politician, Civic Leader
Primary Sources
Her papers are at El Paso County Historical Society. She is a member of their Hall of Honor.
Digital Wall of El Paso Museum of History
Secondary Sources
El Paso Times, Feb 28, 2015, p. 3D.
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Marta Duron HERNANDEZ (? to 2022)
El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, civic leader, Bowie High alumnae, politician,
Primary Sources
Obit El Paso Times, July 3, 2022, p. 5A.
Pictures on digie wall, El Paso Museum of History
Secondary Sources
Savanna Stewart, "Former El Paso 'Woman of the Year' dies at 87," El Paso Times, July 5, 2022, p. 1A and 10A.
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Jan HERRING, artist
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia
She has a street named for her in Clint, Texas.
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Ingeborg HEUSER, Ballet Director
Ingeborg Heuser directed the ballet program at University of Texas at El Paso for many years. She taught ballet at her own studio and also at various private schools including Loretto Academy.
UTEP Library Special Collections has info on fine arts programs at that university. She died Feb 14, 2022 in El Paso, TX.
Primary Sources
Guide to MS 632 UTEP Ballet Research files
Secondary Sources
"Local Ballet legend..." Prospector, Nov 29, 2006, p. 1B.
"Ingeborg Heuser's Final Nutcracker," El Paso Times, Dec 24, 2006, p. 59
For the Love of Dance, by Christina Casas Palmer, 2016
100 Years of Women at UTEP, published byTexas Western Press, p. 45.
Iriana Fogle and Kathryn Guerra, " Ingeborg Heuser Brought Professional Ballet to City," EPCC Borderlands 2011-2012, Vol. 29, p. 12.
Marcia Daudistel ed., Grace and Gumption: El Paso Women, p. 150-51.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 available free from UTEP Library, Special Collections
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Rose Konda HONDA
Primary Resources
Scholarswork at UTEP Library Archives Oral History interview #813.
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Houchen Settlement House and Rose Gregory in Segundo Barrio of El Paso, TX
Houchen Community Center was opened in 1912 as a Settlement House. The Houchen Settlement House provided daycare, education, and health services to the Segundo Barrio in El Paso, TX for many years.
Primary Sources
Photos on digie.org
Secondary Resources
Handbook of Texas entry about Settlement Houses
Vicki L. Ruiz, "Dead Ends or Gold Mines?" Frontiers, 12:1, (1991) Google maps Wikipedia
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press, 9780875654300. p. 150-154.
Settlement Houses in the Progressive Era
The Rose Gregor Settlement House
Patricia Wollin, "Houchen Settlement House Helped New Arrivals, EPCC Borderlands, Vol. 36, 2018-2019.
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Tillie HOWARD, Entrepreneur,
John McVey Middaugh, "Madam made early El Paso more hospitable," El Paso Scene, 2015, p. 24.
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"I" Maud ISAACKS, State Representative
Maud Isaacks,Teacher, State Representative
Eula Maud Isaacks was a Democratic Representative for El Paso, TX. She introduced a bill in the state legislature to end the poll tax. She is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in El Paso, TX.
Primary Resources
Guide to MS123 Maud Isaacks Papers, Scholarswork UTEP Special Collections
Secondary Resources
Handbook of Texas Online, Wikipedia, Legislative Record
Conrey Bryson, "El Paso and the Poll Tax," El Paso County Historical Society quarterly, Password, Vol. 4, No.2, p. 52.
Digital Wall Museum of History El Paso, TX
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1, available electronically from Special Collections UTEP Library
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"J" Davie JOHNSON RN, Pearl JOHNSON, Shoshana JOHNSON POW, Mrs. Guy Hallett JOHNSON,
Davie JOHNSON
Nurse, Advocate for Elders,
Google Maps: Location
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Pearl Johnson
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Trish Long, "Tales from the Morgue", El Paso Times, June 2, 1955.
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Shoshona Johnson, Iraq War POW
Primary Resources
She has published a book.
Local newspapers,
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia
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Mrs. Guy Hallett JOHNSON
Secondary Sources
Tribute in Password, quarterly publication of El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. XXXII, No. 1.
"K" Lt. Col. Charlee Kelly , Eliz. KELLY, Ruth E. KERN, Ginger KERRICK, Ruth Nash KING, Catherine B. KiSTENMACHER, Angela KOCHERGA, Olga KOHLBERG, M. Sue KURITA? etc.
Charlee Kelly, WW II vet
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Scholarswork, UTEP Library Archives
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Elizabeth Hooks KELLY, Librarian, Community Volunteer
Primary Sources
- ScholarsWork UTEP Library Interview 872.
Secondary Sources
- El Paso Museum of History Digital Wall contains multiple photos
- El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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Ruth Ellen KERN Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist in El Paso, TX
Ruth Ellen Kern (1914-2002) was a pioneer feminist lawyer in El Paso, TX. Ruth was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and she helped lead reforms to rebuild the El Paso County jail. Kern began her private practice here in 1967. She was a founding and active member of the El Paso Women's Political Caucus and the El Paso Women's Bar. She also worked to prevent violence against women. She herself was raped. The community response brought new resources to this form of sexual violence. She was later elected to the board of El Paso Community College.
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
- Obituary,
- Wikipedia
- Rogers, Liz, "El Paso Women Lawyers/The Pioneers," El Paso Bar Journal, Nov 2008, p. 7-10.
- Aschoff, Susan, "Ruth Kern Replaced Domesticity With Outspokenness" El Paso Times, Sept. 10, 1978.
- Karr, Stephanie, "Honoring Visionary Women," El Paso Times, March 25, 2017.
- Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 215-217.
- Eva Ross El Paso Women's History Collection MS 447 housed at UTEP Library Special Collections provides info on El Paso Women's Political Caucus involvement
- El Paso Jewish Historical Review, Insights and Hindsights of Some El Paso Jewish Families, Vol. 1, Spring 1983, Number 2, p.148-152.
Teaching Resources
- Brad Meltzer I Am Sonia Sotomayor,
- Susan E. Goodman, The First Step,
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. II, p. 20
Ginger KERRICK DAVIS, first Latina Flight Director NASA
Ginger Kerrick Davis is a member of the Texas Women's Hall of Fame. She is a physicist who works for NASA in Houston. She was the first Hispanic female flight director there. Once a promising local athlete at Eastwood High in El Paso, TX, Ginger changed her career plans after a serious injury. She was a science student at UTEP and Texas Tech. Ginger was honored in El Paso as Grand Marshall of the Sun Bowl Parade. She married in 2020. Governor Greg Abbott appointed her to the Board of Regents at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Primary Sources
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book ,Vol. 2. p. 21
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Ruth Nash KING, professional nurse
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
Obit circa El Paso Times May 28, 2018
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Catherine B. KISTENMACHER, El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, Artist, Volunteer
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
- Charles Martin & Rebecca M Carter, Diamond Days, Texas Western Press, El Paso, Texas, 1991, p. 99.
- Bernadette Sedillos Self, "A Passion for Art," El Paso Times, Jan 13, 2006.
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Angela KOCHERGA, Journalist
Angela Kocherga is a journalist who works as the news director at KTEP and Borderzine. She also works with El Paso Matters, and has won Emmys for her work on life in our borderlands.
Primary Resources
Angel Kocherga, "El Paso Congresswoman recounts mob attack" KTEP, Jan 7, 2021.
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 22 available through Scholarswork UTEP Library Special Collections
___________________________________________Olga KOHLBERG and the Woman's Club of El Paso,Texas
The Woman's Club of El Paso was the first woman's club in Texas. Many prominent women living in El Paso, Texas were involved, including Olga Kohlberg, Eugenia Schuster, and many more.
Primary Resources
- Kohlberg family papers at UTEP
- UTEP Library Special Collections Digitized Archives of the Woman's Club of El Paso MS 476 & more: Archives
Secondary Resources
- Handbook of Texas
- Wikipedia page: Woman's Club of El Paso
- Google maps: Location
- El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Teaching Resources
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 in Scholarswork at UTEP Library Special Collections
- Olga Kohlberg dramatization
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M. Sue Kurita, Judge El Paso,TX
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources Wikipedia
There is an article about Kurita family in El Paso County Historical Society Password
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 23 available through Scholarswork at UTEP Libary
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"L" Mary A. LACY, La Mujer Obrera, Sarah LEA, Romy LEDESMA, Barbara LEE, Yolanda C. LEYVA, Betty J. LIGON, LORETTO Academy, Lupe CASILLAS Lowenberg,etc.
Mary A. Lacy (Sanchez)
Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, Teacher, Rangerette sponsor at Riverside High, Artist
Born in San Elizario, TX.
Primary Sources
- Scholarswork@UTEP interview No 869.
Secondary Sources
- Wikipedia
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LA MUJER OBRERA
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Gabriel Solis, Farah 50 Years Later: a History of Class Struggle in Borderlands, Spectre, 6.16.2022
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Sarah Dighton Lea, community leader
Primary Sources
- Buried in Texas State Cemetery. Good biography there.
- Digital Wall of El Paso Museum of History
- Scholarswork UTEP Library Archives MS 476
Local newspapers
El Paso Museum of History Digital Wall has several images.
Secondary Sources
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Romy LEDESMA Ph.D.
Materials Science Professor at University of TX at El Paso
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
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Barbara LEE
Congresswoman, author, civil rights advocate
Primary Sources
- Renegade for Peace and Justice, Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks for Me, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers inc., 2008.
- Congressional Record
Secondary Sources
- Wikipedia
- Digital Wall at El Paso Museum of History
- Archie Waters, "Congresswoman Returns..." El Paso Times, Sept 24, 1998, Northeast supplement, p. 5.
- Aileen Flores, " US Rep. Lee recalls segregation," El Paso Times, Oct 28, 2017, p. 7A.
Teaching Resources
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Yolanda Chavez LEYVA Ph.D.
Public Historian, Educator/ Poet
Yolanda Chavez Leyva is a Professor in Dept. of History at UTEP, and Director Institute of Oral History there. She worked persistently to defend historic areas of El Paso, TX. She studies, lives, transmits Chicano history.
Primary Sources
- Fierce Fronteriza
- "Segundo Barrio faces new challenge," Prospector, Sept 20, 2006, p. 3.
Secondary Sources
- 100 Years of Women at UTEP published by Texas Western Press
- UTEP page
- Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 220.
- UTEP Library Special Collections, Institute of Oral History holdings MS 327
Teaching Resources
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2 available through UTEP Library Special Collections
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Betty J. LIGON, Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, Journalist, Aviatrix, Arts Advocate
Primary Sources
- Oral History Scholarswork Interview # 872 UTEP Library Special Collections, mostly about experiences in WWII
- Guide to MS371 Betty Ligon Papers at UTEP Library Special Collections
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
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LORETTO Academy
Primary Sources
- Digital wall El Pas Museum of History has information and over 300 photos
- Ad for newly built Loretto Academy,
- El Paso Times, Aug 14 1927, p.7.
- https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105408092/
Secondary Sources,
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Lupe Casillas LOWENBERG, artist, educator,
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Elizabeth "Betty" LUTHER,
Society Page editor and advice columnist El Paso Herald-Post
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
"M" Octavia Mac Grael MAGOFFIN, Susan Shelby MAGOFFIN, Olga M."Cookie" MAPULA, Adair MARGO, Olalee Mc Call, Nancy J. Mc Donald, Pat Mora etc
Octavia Mac Grael MAGOFFIN,
Wife of early mayor of El Paso, TX
Born in Brazoria County, TX.
Primary Sources
- Obit -
- "Remains of Mrs. Magoffin interred,"
- El Paso Herald, July 7, 1906.
- "Mrs. Magoffin's Will Probated," El Paso Herald, Nov. 6, 1906
- "Plans to Make Museum of Magoffin Homestead," Dallas Morning News, Oct .21, 1923.
- "A Real Memorial to Old Southwest," Dallas Morning News, Oct. 21, 1923
- Joseph Magoffin Probate File No. 4162, El Paso County Records, UTEP Library Special Collections.
- Find-a-Grave
- Buried at Evergreen Cemetery El Paso, TX.
Secondary Sources
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Susan Shelby MAGOFFIN, Pioneer traveler on Santa Fe Trail, diarist,
The statue of Susan Shelby Magoffin is at Keystone Heritage Park off Doniphan St. in El Paso TX.
Primary Sources
- Down the Santa Fe Trail: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
Secondary Sources
- Wikipedia
- Kansaspedia
- Encyclopedia Britanica
- Damico, Denise. Magoffin, Susan Shelby
- Simmons, Marc, "Magoffins Helped Shape Early Southwest." El Paso Times. November 29,1992.
Teaching Resources
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Olga "Cookie" MAPULA 1938-?
Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame, Educator, El Paso Community College Board Member, Entrepreneur,
She has a street on eastside of El Paso, TX named for her.
Primary Sources
- Google Maps: Location
Secondary Sources
Frontera: Businesswomen/Entrepreneurs
Teaching Resources
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Adair MARGO, Arts and Humanities Advocate, Author
Adair Margo is a third-generation El Pasoan. She is a supporter of the arts in El Paso, the state of Texas, and internationally. She chaired the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities from 2000 to 2008. That year she received the Presidential Citizens Medal from President George W. Bush. She is close friends with former first lady Laura Bush and the former president. Adair founded the Tom Lea Institute in 2009. She was appointed as a Member of then Texas Higher Education Board. She received an award for cultural diplomacy from Mexico. She has helped politicians at the national, state, and local level, including her husband former Mayor Dee Margo.
Primary Resources
- C-Span
- Digie
- Texas Book Festival
- Tom Lea Institute
- Margo (Adair) Gallery Collection MS 646 at Scholarswork UTEP Library Archives
- UTEP Library Special Collections
- Records of President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (2000-2008)
- MS440 Edge of Texas #273 Last Chance XMas available through UTEP Library Archives
Secondary Sources
- "Power of Image", El Paso Times, June 24,1993 p. 2B.
- "Art among center's offerings," El Paso Herald-Post, Sept. 6, 1993.
- "Outgoing chair Texas Commission on the Arts," Interview, El Paso Inc. , Jan 3-9, 1999.
- El Paso Times, Sept. 25, 2000.
- "Margo Wins Bravo Award of League of Women Voters,"El Paso Times, Ap 1, 2001.
- "Margo to make Bush's art panel international," El Paso Times, Jan 7, 2002, p. 1A & 2A.
- El Paso Times, July 14, 2002 p. 3F.
- "President of FEMAP Board," El Paso Times, Jan. 16 2005, p. 1F.
- "National Arts leaders come to El Paso," El Paso Times, 04.29.2007.
- Ramon Renteria, "Adair Margo's time at the top," El Paso Times, Dec 7, 2008, p. 1F & 6F.
- "YWCA helped teach Margo to share El Paso with the nation," El Paso Times, May 31,2009, p. 1F.
- El Paso Times, Oct.8, 2013, p.1A.
- UTEP Magazine, Spring 2017, p. 5.
- El Paso County Historical Society Hall of Fame Tribute
- "Digital wall is a gift," El Paso Times, May,17, 2020, p.7A.
- In Retrospect, publication by Adair Margo Gallery 20th Anniversary Year 1985-2005.
Teaching Resources
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 25 available through UTEP Library Special Collections
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Susana MARTINEZ, First Hispana governor in the USA
Primary Resources
- Milan Simonich, " Martinez takes government reins," El Paso Times, Dec 31, 2010.
- Ramon Renteria, " 'Bossy' El Paso girl and born leader," El Paso Times, Oct 24, 2010.
- Anne E. Kornblunt, "Momentum for women on GOP side," Washington Post, & El Paso Times, Sept 12, 2010, p. 6A.
- Russell Contreras, "Martinez: grandparents arrived in U.S. illegally," El Paso Times, Sept 9, 2011.
- "El Paso's Daughter, New Mexico Governor, A Conversation..." The City Magazine, May 2013. p. 61-67, The citymagazineelp.com
- Las Cruces Sun News, Diana Alba Soular, " NM Governor for Vice President,? She says no," El Paso Times, April 3,2012, p. 3B.
- Editorial,"From the Publisher," El Paso INC, June 1-7, 2014.
- Ramon Bracamontes, " Union Pacific to expand ..." El Paso Times, Jan 8, 2011, p. 1A & 7 A.
- Milan Simonich, "MALDEF challenges NM residency checks," El Paso Times, Aug 24, 2011, p. 1B.
- "Barry Massey, "Hispanic group allowed in redistriction case, El Paso Times, Dec 1. 2011.
- Milan Simonich, "Martinez to make third try," El Paso Times, Jan 2, 2012, p. 1A.
- Steve Peoples,"Martinez tapped to lead GOP Governors' Association," El Paso Times,Nov.20. 2015: 3D.
- Carlos Andres Lopez, "NM governor lauds joint border efforts," El Paso Times, Ap 27, 2018.
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
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Nancy Jane Mc DONALD, State Representative, Icon of Texas Nursing,
Nancy Jane McDonald (1934-2007) was Texas State Representative for District 76 in the Mission Valley area of El Paso, Texas. She was a nurse and the mother of a large family. At one time Nancy was the only registered nurse in the Texas legislature. She helped make reforms in public health during the AIDS crisis. She is buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, TX.
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
- Texas State Cemetery
- Nancy Mc Donald, Icon of Texas Nursing
- Wikipedia
- UTEP Library Special Collections has photos and other info in MS 348 El Paso Herald-Post collection and in MS447 Eva Ross collection
Teaching Resources
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 26 available through UTEP Library Special Collections
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Olalee Mc Call, educator, civic activist
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia?
- Image on Digie
- "Kwanzaa at Mc Call Neighborhood Center," El Paso Times, Jan 3, 2015, p. 3D.
Teaching Resources
Olalee Mc CALL, Mc Call Neighborhood Center
The McCall Center in the historic Five Points area of El Paso, TX is a vibrant, resource-rich, gathering place for African Americans and other El Paso cititzens. Created under the effective leadership of Leona Ford Washington, the McCall Center has provided meeting space, entertainment, and education about the African American citizens of El Paso. A key section of the building was the home of Olalee and her husband.
- African Americans in El Paso by Frances Hill
- Website
- Google Maps
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Florence Cathcart MELBY
Secondary Sources
- Obituary
- El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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Alice G. MERCHANT M.D.
Doctor and suffragist.
Graduate of Eclectic Medical College of City of New York.
Secondary Sources
- Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 190
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Mary Schuster MEYER
Secondary Resources
- El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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MIDWIFERY In El Paso, TX
Secondary Sources
- "Birth City: Race and Violence in the History of Childbirth and Midwifery in the El Paso-Cuidad Juarez Borderlands, 1907-2013 Scholarswork.UTEP.edu dissertatons
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Maria Norma MONTELLANO
Primary Sources
UTEP Library Archives has her papers
Secondary Sources
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Pat MORA, Poet, Author, Literacy advocate,
Pat Mora is an American author who has supported lifelong literacy among children and adults. She graduated from Loretto Academy in El Paso TX. Mentored by Diana Natalicio she held various positions at the UTEP. She has received national awards for her writing. She created El día de los niños, El día de los libros in 1996.
Primary Resources
Books
- House of Houses,family memoir 1997
- Tomas and the Library Lady, Open Mind Story Time
- A Library for Juana
- Dizzy in My Eyes
- Book Joy, Word Joy
- Drawing Inferences; My Own True Name
- Video interview on readingrockets
Secondary Resources
- Wikipedia,
- Jessica Cereceres, "Dia de Pat Mora," Borderlands flipbook p. 14-15.
- 100 Years of Women at UTEP published by Texas Western Press
Teaching Resources
- Annenberg Learner, the Expanding Cannon, Pat Mora and James Welch
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol II, p. 27 from Scholarswork at UTEP Library
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Esperanza Acosta MORENO, Librarian
Esperanza Acosta Moreno was the first Hispanic person to work as a librarian at the University of Texas At El Paso. As a student she worked her way through Texas Western College. She participated in Golddiggers. She worked with the nursing collection and rare books. She served as librarian to UTEP Nursing School. An eastside library branch of the El Paso Public Library system is named for her.
Primary Resources
- UTEP Library Special Collections has her collection MS 089
- Diamond Days, UTEP Oral History published by Texas Western Press available through UTEP Library Special Collections
Secondary Sources
Teaching Resources
- El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2. p. 28 available electronically through UTEP Library Special Collections
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Celia Álvarez MUNOZ Artist
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
"N" Diana NATALICIO, Grace Ng M.D, Drusilla Tandy NIXON,
Diana NATALICIO,
Texas Women's Hall of Fame, President Emerita, University of Texas at El Paso,
Diana Natalacio (1939-2021) was the first woman to serve as president of the University of Texas at El Paso. During her presidency, she worked to recruit more Hispanic students from our borderland region to UTEP. In 2013 she became the president of the board of directors of the American Council on Education. Dr. Natalicio is a member of the Texas Women's Hall of Fame.
Primary Sources
UTEP Special Collections MS 348 and asks for more resources MS 001
Oral History interview # 773 in Scholarswork at UTEP Library archives
Carreon, Christina, "Ex-UTEP President Dr. Natalicio Dies at 82," El Paso Times, September 26, 2021, p.1.
Secondary Sources
Google Maps to UTEP Administration Bldg
Charles H. Martin and Rebecca M. Carter, Diamond Days, Texas Western Press, El Paso, Texas, 1991.
Oscar J. Martinez, LatinX El Paso, Trego Hill Publications, El Paso, TX, 2021, p. 131-140 & 153-54.
100 Years of Women at UTEP, p. 68-69 Texas Western Press ISBN-10:0-87404-306-9
El Paso County Historical Society, Women Who Forged El Paso History
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol. I and Vol 2???
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Drusilla Tandy NIXON
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia
Sarah E. John, "In Tribute to Drusilla Tandy Nixon", Password, El Paso County Historical Society quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, No.1, El Paso,TX, Spring 1991, p. 35.
El Paso Museum of History Digital Wall has pictures?
Teaching Resources
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"O" Sandra Day O'CONNOR, Agnes O'Shea, Lupe ONTIVEROS, Mago ORONA, Lilliana OWENS, S.L. , etc.
Sandra Day O'CONNOR, Supreme Court Justice, Alumnae, Radford School for Girls
Primary Resources
Sandra Day O'Connor Digital Library for Democracy
Picture on digie.org
Secondary Resources
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Darlene Superville, El Paso Times, July 31, 2009, p. 6A.
Berenadette Self, "O'Connor inspires El Paso Women," El Paso Times, April 5.2005, p. 1A.
Teaching Resources
Profiles of Women Past & Present: Fifteen Original First Person Monologues Written for Classroom and Group Presentation, American Association of University Women, Thousand Oaks Branch Inc, California, ISBN: 0-9637756-0-x p. 37.
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1, available from Scholarswork UTEP
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Agnes O'Shea, Humanitarian
Primary Resources
Virginia Strom, "30 Year 'Poor Farm's Superintendent, She is 'Mother and 'Mom' , El Paso Herald-Post, Ap. 11, 1946.
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Lupe ONTIVEROS, Actress, Activist
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
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Sister M. Lilliana OWENS, S.L. Author, Historian of Diocese of El Paso,TX
Secondary Resources
Wikipedia
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 92.
"P" Letecia PAEZ, Carolyn Laura Partee PARKER, Lydia PATTERSON , Jane Burges PERRENOT, Gloria Osuna PEREZ,,Emma PEREZ, Kathleen PEYTON, Gloria Osuna PEREZ, Jane Burges PERRENOT, Nestora Granillo PIAROTE, etc.
Letecia PAEZ, Health administrator, first Hispana national president of YWCA,
El Paso Women's Hall of Fame,
Primary Resources
Laura Cruz, " El Pasoan is YWCA National President," El Paso Times, Sunday, July 22, 2001.
Secondary Resources
Daudistel, editor Grace and Gumption, TWU Press, 2011, p. 22.
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Carolyn Laura Partee PARKER, Owner Tri-State Beauty School,
US Small Business Advocate of the Year Women in Business 1990,
El Paso Women's Commission Hall of Fame, Former reporter on El Paso Times,
Primary Resources
Secondary Sources
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Lydia PATTERSON , philanthropist
Voices from La Lydia a book by Adair Margo. John Williams Corbin was founding missionary. His wife Annie Williams Corbin served borderlands residents for many years. Lydia Patterson School opened New Year's Day 1914.
Primary Resources
Secondary Sources
Voices of La Lydia, book
Wikipedia,
Obit
Clinton F. Hartmon, "Lydia Paterson Institute, a Living Memorial," Password, of El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. XXXIV, No. 3, El Paso, Texas, (Fall 1989), p. 113.
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Emma Perez, Chicana historian, Author
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
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Gloria Osuna PEREZ, Artist, Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame,
Primary Sources
You tube video by Borderzine,
Photos of her work are on Digie.org
Secondary Sources,
Eklund, Lori and Jerry Medrano. "Instructional Resources: Community and Contemporary Chicano Art: Four El Paso Artists." Art Education. Vol. 53, No. 4. July 2000. (Log in for free on JSTOR)
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Jane Burges PERRENOT, Philanthropist, Library advocate,
Jane Burges Perrenot was a philanthropist in El Paso,TX who was active in helping the community in many different ways. She donated land and funds to the El Paso Public Library. After her death, her home was donated to the El Paso County Historical Society.
Primary Sources
MS 262 Burges-Perrenot Family Papers, UTEP Library Special Collections:
Digie: Perrenot
Secondary Resources
El Paso Historical Society: Website
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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Kathleen PEYTON, YWCA executive,
Former school board member of Ysleta Independent School District
Primary Sources
Texas HR 3023
"After school care provided motivation," El Paso Times, May 26, 2009, p. 1D.
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Nestora Granillo PIAROTE, Ysleta Del Sur Foremother/Potter
Nestora Granillo Piarote (1849 -1918) was a member of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe in El Paso, Texas. She was born just after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that dramatically changed laws impacting women in the Southwest. Nestora was a potter and helped preserve the Tigua language.
Primary Resources
Google Map: location
UTEP Library Special Collections has some materials on Tigua tribe
Daniel Borunda, "$10,000 reward offered to solve Columbus Day vandalism," El Paso Times, Oct 13, 2017.
Secondary Resources
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book volume II (2020) also available from UTEP Library Special Collections.
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Philipino Women in El Paso, TX
Primary Resources
Philipino Nurse Assn. El Paso Times, Feb. 1, 2008.
Coronation Miss Philippines, El Paso Times, Nov 23, 2007.
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Mary POLK, State Representative
Primary Resources
Jesse Tinsley, Contraception Centers Proposed," El Paso Herald-Post, May 15, 1982, p. 6A.
Secondary Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol.1.
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Pearl PONSFORD, World traveler and writer
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Mother PRAXEDES/Loretto Academy, Catholic Girls' School
Mother Praxedes (born Susan Carty 1854-1933) was a member of the Sisters of Loretto and an educator. She helped build many schools in the United States and served as the leader of the Sisters of Loretto for many years. In the 1920s, she started building Loretto Academy in El Paso.
- Archives of Loretto Community, Nerinx, Kentucky
- Pamphlet, "An Army of Peace," The Story of the Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross," c. 1943
- Biography by Patricia Manion, Only One Heart
- Website
SECONDARY RESOURCES
- El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
- Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 97-98 .
“Mother Praxedes gets Gran Cross…” El Paso Herald, Sept. 5, 1927 p.5.
Teaching Resources
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Pearl PONSFORD, Teacher, Travel writer
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Mary Smith PRICE, founder Price's Dairy, a long-established El Paso business.
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
David Bennett, Woman was prominent," El Paso Times, March 3, 1998.
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 200-204
Bill Lockhart, "They Bought a Cow: The History of Price's Dairy,
Teaching Resources
Scholars Work UTEP, El Paso Women's History Coloring Book, Vol. 1.
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"Q" Joan QUARM, Juanita H.QUINTEROS, Harriette QUISENBERRY,
Joan Quarm
Secondary Sources
Quisa Davis, "Ms. Joan nurtured El Paso theatre...", El Paso Times, Jan 7 2010, p. 7B.
Diane Washington Valdez, El Paso arts and cultural icon dies at 90," El Paso Times, Jan 3, 2011, p. 1B.
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Harriette QUISENBERRY, Community activist circa 1935
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
Abbie Weiser, "Think-Talk-Write Texas Centennial in 1936, Scholarsworks at UTEP Library
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Juanita H. QUINTEROS, LULAC activist, Advocate for elders
Obit
"R" RADFORD School for Girls, Ma. de Socorro RAMIREZ, Revva Ruth REYES, Mateele RITTGERS, Lupe RIVERA, Belen ROBLES, etc.
Radford School for Girls
Primary Sources
Google Maps
Photos on Digital Wall of El Paso Museum of History,
Secondary Sources
Phyllis, A Mainz, Crinoline, Curriculum, and Cannons, "The Story of Radford School for Girls," El Paso County Historical Society, quarterly, Password, Vol. IX, No. 3, El Paso, TX.
Internet articles about longtime administrator Lucinda de Leftwich Templin.
Teaching Resources
Lesson Plan Documenting Texas Women's History through Seventh Grade
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Maria De Socorro RAMIREZ
Secondary Sources
Texas State Legislature 79R10237KO-D by Chavez, No. 875
Aguilar, Matthew, "Slain Woman Was Community Leader," El Paso Times, Nov. 7, 1996. p. 1B.
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REVVA REYES, Dancer
Primary Sources
obit,
Secondary Sources
"Sudden death in crash closes career of dancer," El Paso Herald-Post, Jan 25, 1960.
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Guadalupe "Lupe" RIVERA, Retired Appellate Judge
Primary Sources
Brock, Peter, "Troche Loses Seat on Bench," El Paso Herald-Post, November 7, 1990.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's Coloring Book, Vol I available electronically from UTEP Library Special Collections
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Judy ROBINSON, philanthropist, El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
Secondary Resources
Wikipedia?
YWCA profile, "Volunteer gives back to El Paso," El Paso Times, March 17, 2009, p. 1D.
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Belen ROBLES, First Female LULAC President, first chief customs inspector in El Paso TX
Belen Robles was the first woman to be elected as national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Belen also worked in the Immigration and Naturalization Service and U.S. Customs. She served on board of El Paso Community College after retirement.
Primary Sources
Interview no. 222 ScholarWorks@UTEP Library,
Letter from Belen Robles to John L. Herrera,
UTEP Library Special Collections has her photos.
Secondary Sources
WIKIPEDIA
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History
Virginia Turner, "Clerk becomes first female chief customs inspector," El Paso-Herald Post, Aug. 1, 1990.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2 p. 30 available electronically from UTEP Library Special Collections
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Colonel Maria Louise ROGERS, Surgical and Combat Nurse
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Peggy ROSSON, State Senator
Primary Resources
Google Maps: Location
Secondary Resources
"Bitter El Paso Race," Dallas Morning News, Feb 25,1990.
Gary Scharrer," Rosson to depart Texas Senate in '96," El Paso Times, AUG 22.1995, p. 1A.
"Hobby Favors El Pasoan," El Paso Times, Feb 11, 1983.
Ron Duser, "Awaiting Her Turn," El Paso Times, Aug, 7,1986.
"Rosson Best for Senate," editorial, El Paso Times, Feb 25 1990, p. 2G.
Gary Sharrer, "Tati Chides Rosson... ," El Paso Times, Feb. 22 1990.
"Rosson Makes History," El Paso Times, Nov. 2,1990, p. 1A & 6A.
David Crowder, "Tati's Accusations are Lies," El Paso Times, Feb, 7 1990.
Brock, Peter, "Rosson's Long Haul to Senate," El Paso Herald-Post, Nov. 7, 1990
David Sheppard, Newly Elected El Pasoans..,"El Paso Times, Nov. 12, 1990.
Gary Scharrer, "Rosson Rips in Senate Speech," El Paso Times, May 29, 1993.
Gary Scharrer, "Rosson to Depart," El Paso Times, Aug. 22.1995: 1A.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 available on line from Scholarswork UTEP Library
"S" Helen SANTAMARIA S.L., Mary A. SARBER, Louise SCHUSSLER, Eugenia SCHUSTER, Maxine L. SILVA, Mary Irene STAnton, Kathy STAUDT Ph.D. etc.
Sister Helen Santamaria SL (1943-?)
Born Ap 18,1943 Sister Helen was educated at St. Joseph's Elementary and graduated as saludatorian at Loretto Academy in El Paso, TX. She chose life as a nun despite her father's resistence.
At Motherhouse in Nerinx, Kentucky she was impacted by author Thomas Merton and activist priest Daniel Barrigan. She taught Spanish and rose to school leadership role in St. Louis, Mo. during Civil Rights Movement.
Helen returned to El Paso, TX to serve as president of Loretto Academy, then vice chancellor of the diocese of El Paso,TX. She and Sr. Mary Margaret established Villa Maria, a shelter for single homeless women in Segundo Barrio. She has been recognized as a Woman of Impact by El Paso Inc. the business weekly in our city.
Primary Sources
Oral History Interview UTEP archives, Scholarswork Interview 1674
Secondary Sources
Digie has photos of her
Loretto Community publications on line
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Mary A. SARBER, Librarian
Primary Sources
UTEP Library Archives has her postcard collection of women.
Secondary Sources
Mary A. Sarber, "A Century of Growth: The El Paso Public Library 1894-1994," Password, El Paso County Historical Society, Vol. 39, No. 1, El Paso, TX, Spring 1994, p 5.
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Photographs from the Border, El Paso, Published by El Paso Public Library Assn.
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Louise SCHUESSLER Organizing chairperson of El Paso County Historical Society
Wikipedia?
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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Eugenia Manayi SCHUSTER, Clubwoman, Founded Pan-American Round Table in her home in El Paso, TX, Nov 26,1921.
Primary Sources
See local newspapers like El Paso Daily Herald, El Paso Daily Times 1906-1960
Secondary Sources
Mary S. Cunningham,The Woman's Club of El Paso, Texas Western Press, El Paso, TX, 1978, p. 77-88.
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
Teaching Resources
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Maxine L. SILVA, education advocate, EPISD school board member,
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
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Elsie Mc Elroy SLATER
Primary Sources
Elsie McElroy Slater papers Scholarswork at UTEP Library MS 272
UTEP Centennial Museum exhibit
Secondary Sources
Grace and Gumption, the Women of El Paso edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, p. 174-177.
Teaching Resources
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Felipa SOLIS, Arts Advocate, El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
Secondary Sources
Adriana Gomez Leon, "Spanish Music-a dancer's daily bread," UTEP Prospector, Feb 28, 2008, p. 4.
Daniel Borunda and Michael D. Hernandez, Crash kills lawyer," El Paso Times, July 6, 2009, p. 1A & 4A.
"Felipa Solis on the healing power of music," elpasoinc.com, March 18-24, 2018, p.38.
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Mary Irene STANTON, Founder Public Library
Secondary Sources
Wikipedia
Stanton Elementary School at 5414 Hondo Pass is named for her, as is a major north south street through downtown El Paso, TX.
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Kathleen STAUDT, professor, researcher, & writer about Borderlands politics
Kathleen Staudt is a professor emerita of UTEP. She is a former Peace Corp Volunteer. Kathleen is an expert on the borderland, and taught classes at UTEP on policy, politics, and more. She is a writer and editor in El Paso, TX.
Primary Sources
UTEP Library Special Collections MS388
Interview No. 330, UTEP Oral History Institute
Secondary Sources
Elida Perez, "Professor invited to Japan," Prospector, Aug 23, 2006.
Jasmine Aguilera, "Political Science Professor receives Border Heroes Award," UTEP Prospector, Nov. 22, 2011, p. 6.
Diana Washington Valdez, "Women's History Month Conference to feature UTEP's Staudt," El Paso Times, March 6, 2016, p. 1B.
100 Years of Women at UTEP, Texas Western Press, p. 81
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 31 available through UTEP Library Special Collections
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Maud Durlin SULLIVAN, librarian
Primary Sources
Maud Durlin Sullivan manuscript collection ScholarsWork UTEP Library MS 423
Secondary Sources
Louise Maxon Rea, El Paso's Pioneer Women, " Maude Sullivan sparked...." El Paso Times, 1978. (Link through TexShare)
Mary A. Sarber, "A Century of Growth: The El Paso Public Library 1894-1994," Password, El Paso County Historical Society,Vol. 39, No. 1, El Paso, Texas, Spring, 1994, p. 7-8.
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 18.
El Paso County Historical Society Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft)
"T" Yolanda TARANGO, Lucinda de Leftwich TEMPLIN Ph.D. TIGUA WOMEN, Estella Portillo TRAMBLEY, Virginia Storm TURNER,
Yolanda TARANGO
Secondary Sources
"Lower Valley Mainstay Brings YWCA to Her Community," El Paso Times, Aug 2009, p. 10A &10F.
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Lucinda de Leftwich TEMPLIN and Radford School (see Radford School in section 19)
Primary Sources
Alex Hinojosa, "Radford at 100," El Paso Times, Sept 6, 2010, p. 3B.
Louise Maxon Rea,"Pioneer El Paso Women",
"Radford Principal educated..." El Paso Times, July 6, 1978, p. 1C.
Secondary Sources
Women Who Forged El Paso (Draft) El Paso County Historical Society
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TIGUA Women
Secondary Sources
Danielle J. De Frank, " Tiguas struggle to preserve heritage and tradition," Prospector, Ap 10, 1994, p. 7.
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Estella Portillo Trambley was a Chicana writer. Estella wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. She was the first Chicana to publish her own book of short stories, and her work is about social criticism and feminism. She taught in El Paso,TX.
Primary Sources
Estela Portillo Trambley Papers
Molinar, Victoria G. "Who Was Estela Portillo Trambley?" (March 5, 2018) El Paso Inc.
"Chicano theatre plans Isabel...," El Paso Herald-Post, May 20, 1977, p. 48.
"Styles of Hispanic Playwrights..." Los Angeles Times. July 9, 1987 (second page)
Secondary Sources Wikipedia
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 82-84
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 1 available through UTEP Library Special Collections
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Virginia Storm TURNER, first woman city editor in Scripps-Howard newspaper chain.
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Marcia Hatfield Daudistel editor, Grace and Gumption, the Women of El Paso, TCU Press,
Virginia Turner, " Sunset Grocery" Yesterday, El Paso Herald-Post, Oct 26, 1978.
Article on Nurse Midwifery in El Paso, "One of Six," El Paso Herald-Post, Sept 26, 1978.
Virginia Turner, "Joe Sierra, Tigua Tribal Governor," El Paso Herald-Post, Feb 7, 1978.
Virginia Turner, "Sisters Centennial," El Paso Herald-Post, July 14, 1978.
Virginia Turner, "Get the Hens Out," El Paso Herald-Post, July 10, 1978.
"U" Luz ULRICKSON, Teresa URREA,
Luz ULRICKSON, Cathedral High Math Teacher
Primary Sources
obit El Paso Times, 6.22.2022 p. 4 A
Secondary Sources
photos on digital wall El Paso Museum of History
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Teresita URREA
Primary Sources
El Paso International Daily Times, 1895 (Available through TexShare)
Secondary Sources
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 38-42, p.165-168.
"V" Diana Washington VALDEZ, Arlene VALLES, Dorris VAN Doren, CAROL VIESCAS, Cora VIESCAS etc.
Diana Washington VALDEZ, Journalist of Borderlands
Diana Washington Valez is an native of El Paso, TX. She became an award winning journalist. Her work on reporting the missing and murdered women of Juarez mobilized many.
Primary Sources
Listen to interview from KTEP, Listen to interview on NPR 2003,
Books written by her:
- The Killing Fields (2006)
- Harvest of Women (2006)
Secondary Sources
Articles by her in El Paso Times
Diana Washington Valdez, "Six defendants deny allegations of human traffiking, El Paso Times, Ap 18, 2015.
Diana Washington Valdez, "Running in Mexico's midterm election meant risking your life," El Paso Times, Sunday June 3, 2021: 9A.
Teaching Resources
Lesson Plan Diana_Washington_Valdez_PP_Perla1.pptx
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 33.
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Arlene VALLES,
YWCA profile, "Disability didn't keep supporter from giving," El Paso Times, May 24, 2009, p. 1F & 11F.
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DORRIS VAN DOREN, teacher, Westside LIBRARY Advocate
Primary Resources
Secondary Resources
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Monica Vargas-Mahar
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CAROL VIESCAS journalist, educator, actress,
Primary Resources
Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History
Secondary Resources,
Teaching Resources
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CORA Branson VIESCAS, El Paso Women's Hall of Fame
Primary Sources
Viescas helped El Paso Women as volunteer and in career," El Paso Times, June 28, 2009 p. 12A & 12F.
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"W" Leona Ford WASHINGTON, Jenna WELCH, Mabel Clair WELCH, Thelma WHITE, Bernice L. WIGGINS, Maud E. Craig Sampson WILLIAMS, Bernice Love WIGGINS, Florence J. WOLFE "Lady Flo", Janice WINDLE, Maude E. Craig Sampson WILLIAMS
Leona Ford WASHINGTON, Teacher, Civic leader
Leona Ford Washington (1928-2007) was an African American community activist and educator. She taught for around 39 years and wrote the song, "The City of El Paso." She also owned a newspaper that covered the Black community in El Paso, The Good Neighbor.
A street in east El Paso TX is named for her.
Primary Sources
UTEP Library Special Collections PHO 38
Secondary Resources
Wikipedia, El Paso Times and El Paso Herald-Post
Wheresoever My People Chance to Dwell: Oral Histories, Black Classic Press.
Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 34
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Jenna WELCH Regional Library
Secondary Sources
Rachel Murphee, "Jesse Hawkins and Jenna Welch: Love, Loss and Laughter," El Paso Community College Borderlands, 2012-2013, Vol. 30, p. 9-11.
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MABEL Clair Vandenburg WELCH, Architect, Entrepreneur, Home builder
Primary,
Pictures on Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History
UTEP Library Archives
Secondary
Grace and Gumption, the Women of El Paso, edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, p. 63-66.
Teacher Resources
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Thelma Joyce WHITE
Primary Sources,
Secondary Sources,
Texas State Historical Association
Teaching Resourses
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BERNICE Love WIGGINS, Poet
Bernice Love Wiggins (1897-1936) was an African American poet who wrote during the Harlem Renaissance. She was a student at the segregated Douglass High see section above. Wiggins was raised by her aunt in El Paso and later moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s. Her poetry covered civil rights issues and women's rights issues.
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol. 2, p. 35 available electronically from UTEP Library Special Collections
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Maud E. Craig Sampson WILLIAMS Teacher, suffragist, civil rights activist, NAACP Board member
Maud Evangeline Craig Sampson Williams (1880-1958) was a civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist. As a suffragist, Maude worked with both white and Black women in El Paso. Maude founded the Parent's Organization at Douglass School. She also was one of the founders of El Paso's Phyllis Wheatley Club. Maude was elected to the NAACP board in El Paso and challenged segregation in UTEP.
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Secondary Resources
Wikipedia page, Handbook of Texas, Black Past
Online exhibit " The Rights to a Voice in the Affairs of Their Own Govermnemt," UTEP Special Collections Feb 10, 2020
Password of El Paso County Historical Society published article by Janine Young, "Alive to the Priviledge of the Franchise:" African American Suffragists in El Paso 1915-1920, Password, Volume 64, No. 2, El Paso, Texas, Summer 2020 p.66-81.
Wheresoever My People Chance to Dwell: Oral Histories, Black Classic Press 2000
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Joyce Wilson, First City Manager of City of El Paso, TX
Member El Paso Women's Hall of Fame?
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Reach Awards, El Paso Times, Nov 7, 2007, p. 1A.
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Janice Woods WINDLE-Author, Founder El Paso Community Foundation,
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Florida J. WOLFE, Cattle Rancher, Philanthropist
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Black Past
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"Y" Tracy YELLEN, YWCA, etc.
Tracy YELLEN, Member El Paso Commission for Women Hall of Fame
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"YWCA leader finds niche as grant writer," El Paso Times, May 27, 2009.
Mike Mrkvicka, "YWCA, loan projects," El Paso Times, Feb 27, 2000.
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Women of Impact, El Paso INC, Mar 20, 2015.
Tracy Yellen Appointed to Dallas Fed's El Paso Brach Board 2019
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YWCA
See also Myrna Deckert above.
Secondary Sources
Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield, ed. Grace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso. (2011) Fort Worth, Texas: TCU Press. 9780875654300. p. 20-23
Interview with Dr. Sylvia Acosta CEO YWCA El Paso, Citybeat.us March-April 2017.
"Z " Judy ZARATE, Fanny Hutman ZLABOVSKY, Ruth Schwartz ZORK etc.
Judy Zarate, Civic Leader
Member of Laguna Pueblo, Leader in El Paso Women's Political Caucus
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"She Was Always there", El Paso County Historial Society,
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Fanny Hutman ZLABOVSKY, Jewish Humanitarian
Fanny Hutman Zlabovsky 1877-1969) was born in Kiev. She was sent temporarily to an orphamage in New Orleans for 3 years. She learned book keeping at the orphanage. She was reunited with her mother and siblings in San Antonio, TX. She ultimately moved to El Paso, Texas after marrying Frank Zlabovsky in 1902. Fanny had her spouse were instrumental in the founding a local Jewish congregation.
She and her family lived in the historic Magoffin neighborhood in a two storied home (now demolished) at the corner of Tays and Olive St. That home is very close to the downtown bridge into Juarez, Mexico. The site is included on the walking tour of the neighborhood.
Fanny Zlabovsky worked for the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) in El Paso, TX . She helped immigrants escape the Nazis by entering the US from Mexico. She is buried in the green well tended Jewish section of Concordia Cemetery in El Paso, TX.
Primary Sources
Fanny Zlabovsky-National Council of Jewish Women case files MS508 UTEP Library Special Collections
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Teaching Resources
El Paso Women's History Coloring Book Vol 2, p. 36
See National Geographic Kids Miep Gies
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Ruth Schwartz ZORK
Rabbi Floyd Fierman did interview in 1982.
Photo of wedding on Digital Wall El Paso Museum of History
Beneficiary of Popular Dry Goods and Zork Hardware
AA set of postcards created for 2022 Women's History Month, Women Providing Health, Promoting Hope
Women's History Month 2022 postcards featuring images in the public domain or released under Creative Commons 4.0 SA.
AB set of postcards created for 2023 Women's History Month, Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories