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StoryboardAustin, TWHMTexas Women’s History Month ProfilesKUT and the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation celebrate Women’s History Month with the “Texas Women’s History Moment” throughout March. These 90 second pieces highlight the impact that women in the Lone Star State have had in shaping what Texas has become today.
You can hear these vignettes at various times each day on KUT 90.5.
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Texas Women’s History Month: Ove...
One of the most accomplished Texas women of the 20th century, Oveta Culp Hobby excelled in numerous ways, including as the first director of the Women’s Army Corps. A native of Killeen, Hobby developed an interest in politics and the law at an early age....
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Texas Women’s History Month: Pat...
Patricia de la Garza de León was one of the earliest pioneers to colonize Texas. She and her family initially settled on the banks of the Aransas River in 1799 where they raised livestock and registered the first brand in Texas, a connected E and J that stood for Espiritú de Jesús, or Spirit of...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Jua...
The granddaughter of former slaves and the daughter of educators, civil rights activist Juanita Craft grew up in Austin and attended Prairie View and Huston-Tillotson universities, but even with a college education could only find work as a drugstore clerk in Galveston, as a dressmaker in Dallas,...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Mar...
María Gertrudis Pérez, a descendent of the Canary Island immigrants who formed the core of the first organized civil government in Texas in the 18th Century, was born in 1790 in the family homestead at the Royal Presidio of San Antonio de Béxar. When she was 14, her family, which had a long...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Ali...
Alice Dickerson Montemayor was born in Laredo in 1902. A women’s rights supporter and folk artist, she was the first woman to hold a national position in the League of United Latin American citizens, or LULAC, that was not reserved for a woman. The nation’s oldest and largest Mexican American...
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Nancy Baker Jones
Nancy Baker Jones is a founding member of the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation. She and Winegarten wrote Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators 1923-1999 (UT Press), which won the Liz Carpenter Award from the Texas State Historical Association....
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Texas Women’s History Month Quiz
Watch the video and see how many questions about Texas Women's History you can answer. Then find out how many correct answers you have by clicking on the "Listen" tab on our homepage, launch the player and listen to the "TWHM Quiz Answers" under "Specials". Have fun and thanks for playing the TWHM...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Hor...
In 1910, Hortense Ward became the first woman in Texas admitted to the state bar. A former teacher and court reporter, she practiced civil law with her husband but did not appear in court, concerned that her appearance would offend male juries. ...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Sip...
Dubbed the Texas Nightingale, blues legend Sippie Wallace was born Beulah Thomas in Houston in 1898. She acquired her nickname while in grade school because, as she later recalled, “My teeth were so far apart I had to sip everything....
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Texas Women’s History Month: Jane Long
Two women and two children, alone in the dead of winter. The year is 1821. The place is Bolivar Peninsula, near Galveston. The women are Jane Long, her two young daughters, and her slave, Kian. One of 10 children, Jane Long was orphaned at 15, married at 17, and quickly began having children...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Jov...
Jovita Idar grew up in Laredo, one of 8 children of parents who published La Crónica, a Spanish-language newspaper that exposed segregation, lynching, and other injustices endured by Mexican Texans in the early 20th Century. She trained to be a teacher, but frustration with her inability to...
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Texas Women’s History Month: Mar...
Marsha Gomez, a sculptor and activist for social change, was best known for her monumental “Madre del mundo” (Mother of the World) series. Depicting a life-sized indigenous woman cradling a globe in her lap, the first of her “madre” works was created for a Mother’s Day protest and peace...
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