Image from The Texas Senate Born: 1946 (Laredo, TX) Noted For: Judith Pappas Zaffirini is noted as the first Mexican-American woman elected to the Texas Senate. In a political era characterized [...]
Image from Twitter (City of San Antonio) Born: 1922 (Fort Worth) Died: 2019 (San Antonio) Noted For: Lila Banks Cockrell was noted as the first woman to serve as mayor of San Antonio, Texas. In [...]
Image from “The Chicana Conference of 1971: Turning Visions into Action” In the 1970s, one of the most influential grassroots political movements was La Raza Unida, a Hispanic political party [...]
Image from The Dallas Morning News Archives Born: 1917 (Dallas) Died: 2004 (Dallas) Noted For: Julia Scott Reed is noted as the first African-American journalist to work at The Dallas Morning [...]
Hermine Tobolowsky (right). Image from The Southwest Collection Archive within the Special Collections Library at Texas Tech. Born: 1921 (San Antonio) Died: 1995 Noted For: Hermine Dalkowitz [...]
Born: 1929 (Chicago) Noted For: Wilhelmina Ruth Delco is a politician and educator noted as the first African-American elected official in Travis County and a 20-year member of the Texas State [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]