by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from The Portal to Texas History, courtesy of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center of the Houston Public Library. Born: 1925 (Nordheim, TX) Died: 2002 (Crystal City, TX) Noted For: Virginia Aguirre Múzquiz is noted as an influential Mexican-American...
by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Passed in 1905, the Terrell Law created a statewide direct-primary system for all state, district, and county elective offices in Texas. The provisions of Terrell legalized and encouraged the creation of “whites-only” primary election voting requirements that resulted...
by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from Wikipedia/State Bar of Texas Born: 1896 (Baltimore) Died: 1985 (Dallas) Noted For: Sarah Tilghman Hughes was a politician and judge who is the only woman in U.S. history (to date as of 2019) to have sworn in a U.S. President, having famously administered...
by Keisha | Jul 8, 2020 | Count Her In
Oveta Culp Hobby (right). Image from the New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Born: 1905 (Killeen) Died: 1995 (Houston) Noted For: Oveta Culp Hobby was a civil servant, journalist, and politician noted as the director of the Women’s...
by Keisha | Jul 7, 2020 | Count Her In
Image from the Texas House of Representatives. Born: 1931 (Kingsville) Died: 2003 (Austin) Noted For: Irma Rangel was an educator and lawyer noted as the first Mexican American woman elected to the Texas House of Representatives. Irma Lerma Rangel was not a woman...
