I have a number of Texas Women Religious friends (ministers) and have been thinking about them and about students who might enjoy reading about the history of Texas women in the ministry. I will post a few entries here to get us started. Join as a Follower and then respond to this post in the comment area to let me know what you think. It would be great if you would, sometime during using this post, send me info (primary or secondary sources) re Texas women ministers. Let's preserve their history!
Books, Pamphlets, and Reports:
Brown, Fay. Lady of the Lord: An Autobiography. Channing, Tex.: F. Brown, 1991. [Biography of a Methodist minister.]
Fields, Ann Brown. A Time to Speak: A History in Celebration of Clergywomen of the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. [San Antonio, Texas]: Commission on the Status and Role of Women, Southwest Conference of the United Methodist Church, 2006. Content includes: Early ordination of women in Texas; Just the beginning: The Methodist Church approves full clergy rights for women; The Southwest Texas Conference ordains a woman; and The floodgates begin to open: our foremothers in the Southwest Texas Conference.
Fisher, Annie May. Woman's Right to Preach: A Sermon Reported as Delivered at Chilton, Texas. San Antonio, Tex.: The Author, 1900. Reprinted 2004 (Oklahoma City, Ok: Charles Edwin Jones, 2004) [See Archives below for copy of her sermon]
Jernigan, C.B. 1863-1930 (Charles Brougher). Pioneer Days of the Holiness Movement in the Southwest. Oklahoma City, Ok: Charles Edwin Jones, 2002, 1919. Content includes: Women preachers.
Lambert, Marie, Sister. Called to Trace New Patterns: A Story of the Women Religious of the Diocese of Galveston-Houston. [Houston, TX]: The Diocese, 1980-1989?
United Methodist Church (U.S.). Southwest Texas Comference. Commission on the Status and Role of Women. Clergy Women in the Southwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. S.l.: s.m. 1980.
Articles:
Butler, Amy Dill. "When a Woman Answers God's Call," The Baylor Line 55, no. 4(Fall 1993): 46-49. ["Once limited to service in the foreign mission field, today women are also preparing to serve as ministers in local Baptist churches. Amy Butler '91 speakes frankly of the challenges faced."]
Chiodo, Beverly Ann. "Real County," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 65, no. 3 (January 1962): 348-365. [References to the work of a female Holiness preacher and to a local Irish woman healer. "Miss Annie Thomas was the first teacher in the Real County area to receive pay out of the public fundss." p. 356. Also includes references to the Order of the Eastern Star.]
"Folsom, Mariana Thompson" In Handbook of Texas Online. [available to the public by the Texas State Historical Association. Handbook of Texas Online.]
Oral histories:
Allison, Nancy Ellett. Oral Interview. Institute for Oral History. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Interviewed by Rosalie Beck on July 23, 1986, in Dallas, Texas. [Nancy Allison was an ordained minister and the only female Baptist associate pastor in the city of Dallas at the time of the interview. She discusses her childhood, family history, Christian experiences, education, family's reaction to her call to the ministry, reactions to a woman pastor, church service, marriage, missionary work.]
Clanton, Jann Aldredge. Oral Interview. Institute for Oral History. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Interviewed by Rosalie Beck on three occasions from July 31, 1986, to September 25, 1986, in Waco, Texas. [Jann Aldredge Clanton was Associate Minister at Saint John's United Methodist Church in Waco, Texas. She discusses childhood, being a "preacher's kid", call to Christian ministry, education, courtship and marriage, resistance to women in the ministry, prospects for women in the ministry, and advice to young women in ministry.]
Storms, Valerie Ruth. Oral Interview. Institute of Oral Hisotry. Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Interviewed by Rosalie Beck on July 12, 1986, in Houston, Texas. 3 hrs., 113 pp. index, 2 pp. [She was the pastoral intern working with single adults at Willow Meadows Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. Includes her advice to young women called into Christian ministry.]
Archives:
Fisher, Annie May. Woman's Collection. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. [Includes 1 Vertical File]. "Early twentieth century advocate of women's religious freedom." Includes "Her sermon, "Woman's right to preach," published by Berachah Printing Company (Dallas, tex.) ca. 1900).
Folsom, Mariana Thompson. Archives Division. Texas State Library, Austin, Texas. [Includes 7 items of Reverend Mary C. Billings, 1904, a Universalist minister and friend of Mariana. She died in Hico, Texas. Address book and six newspaper obituaries.]
Henry, Elizabeth. 1900- Woman's Collection. Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. [Includes 1 Vertical File] "Red top (Brazos) early pioneer doctor who ministered to settlers and helped to establish a Presbyterian Church in her home while helping run her husband's plantation."
Media:
Vaccariello, Carol P. "A Healer's Journey." El Paso, TX: El Paso Community College, Center for Instructional Telecommunications, 2000. Series: Emerging Renaissance TV Interview Series, no. 195. Taped February 28, 2000. Videocassette (28 min): sd., col.; 1/2 in. Subjects include: Women clergy -- Texas -- El Paso
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
WELCOME TO MY BLOG: TEXAS WOMEN: SHARING THEIR HISTORY
I hope you enjoy this site and will share it with those you know who are interested in Texas Women's History. The URL is texaswomensharingtheirhistory.blogspot.com. Leave me comments about Posts you visit. Let me know which Posts like; and if you do not find what you are looking for, please let me know. Posts are archived after about a week, so do look at the "Archive" list on the right. I plan to continue to add to the content of current Posts so revisit them often. I am new at "blogging" and have a lot to learn, but I promise a more user friendly as I work with it.
I hope you enjoy this site and will share it with those you know who are interested in Texas Women's History. The URL is texaswomensharingtheirhistory.blogspot.com. Leave me comments about Posts you visit. Let me know which Posts like; and if you do not find what you are looking for, please let me know. Posts are archived after about a week, so do look at the "Archive" list on the right. I plan to continue to add to the content of current Posts so revisit them often. I am new at "blogging" and have a lot to learn, but I promise a more user friendly as I work with it.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Let's begin a chat about women in Texas history
I ask my students toward the end of each semester which Texas women, who are not already in the general textbooks about Texas history, they would like to read about. Perhaps you would like to join this discussion with me--add a comment below and tell me which Texas women you would like to read about in future Texas history books and why you think they are that important. Do you concur with any of the student choices?
Here are the most frequently listed names from my students over the years: Eleanor Brackenridge, Bessie Coleman, Wilhelmina Delco, Sarah T. Hughes, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Louise Raggio, Lorene Rogers, Hilda Tagle, Hortense Ward, Edith Eunice Wilmans. What do you think about them? See my Post below on Firsts for Texas Women.
The following individual Texas women are already included in the textbook I use for my junior-level class on Texas history and as a reference book for my senior-level class on Women in Texas History: (Calvert, Robert A., Arnoldo DeLeon, and Gregg Cantrell. The History of Texas. 4th ed. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2007): Maria de Agreda, Jessie Daniel Ames, Annie Webb Blanton, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Linda Darnell, Susannah Dickinson, Dixie Chicks, Elizabeth York Enstam, Frances "Sissy." Farenthold, Miriam "Ma," Ferguson, Betty Friedan, Jovita Gonzales, Maud Cuney Hare, Sandra Haynie, Oveta Culp Hobby, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Molly Ivins, Margo Jones, Janis Joplin, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Mary Lasswell, Trini Lopez, Natalie Maines, Mary Martin, Lydia Mendoza, Cynthia Ann Parker, Anna Pennybacker, Katherine Anne Porter, Sara Estela Ramirez, Judy Rankin, Melinda Rankin, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Richards, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Scarborough, Rebecca Sharpless, Ann Sheridan, Annette Strauss, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Emma Tenayuca, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tanya Tucker, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Nina Vance, Elise Waerenskjold, Beulah "Sippie," Wallace, Julia Nott Waugh, Sarah Weddington, Lulu B. White, Kathy Whitmire, and Kathy Whitworth.
Here are the most frequently listed names from my students over the years: Eleanor Brackenridge, Bessie Coleman, Wilhelmina Delco, Sarah T. Hughes, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Louise Raggio, Lorene Rogers, Hilda Tagle, Hortense Ward, Edith Eunice Wilmans. What do you think about them? See my Post below on Firsts for Texas Women.
The following individual Texas women are already included in the textbook I use for my junior-level class on Texas history and as a reference book for my senior-level class on Women in Texas History: (Calvert, Robert A., Arnoldo DeLeon, and Gregg Cantrell. The History of Texas. 4th ed. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2007): Maria de Agreda, Jessie Daniel Ames, Annie Webb Blanton, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, Linda Darnell, Susannah Dickinson, Dixie Chicks, Elizabeth York Enstam, Frances "Sissy." Farenthold, Miriam "Ma," Ferguson, Betty Friedan, Jovita Gonzales, Maud Cuney Hare, Sandra Haynie, Oveta Culp Hobby, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Molly Ivins, Margo Jones, Janis Joplin, Barbara Jordan, Billie Jean King, Mary Lasswell, Trini Lopez, Natalie Maines, Mary Martin, Lydia Mendoza, Cynthia Ann Parker, Anna Pennybacker, Katherine Anne Porter, Sara Estela Ramirez, Judy Rankin, Melinda Rankin, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Richards, Ginger Rogers, Dorothy Scarborough, Rebecca Sharpless, Ann Sheridan, Annette Strauss, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, Emma Tenayuca, Estela Portillo Trambley, Tanya Tucker, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Nina Vance, Elise Waerenskjold, Beulah "Sippie," Wallace, Julia Nott Waugh, Sarah Weddington, Lulu B. White, Kathy Whitmire, and Kathy Whitworth.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Theses and Dissertations about Texas Women
Barthelme, Marion Knox. “Women in the Texas Populist Movement: Their Letters to the Southern Mercury.” Master’s thesis, Rice University, Houston, 1993.
Bess, Jennifer J. "Equal Rights for All and Special Privileges for None: Women's Participation in the Farmers' Alliance of Texas." Master's thesis, University of Houston, Houston, 1998.
Harris, Miriam Kalman. "Claire Myers Owens: Life, Work, Art 1896-1983." Doctoral diss., University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, 1997.
Knippa, Heidi Ann. “Salvation of a University: The Admission of Women to Texas A&M.” Master’s thesis, The University of Texas, Austin, 1995.
Murr, Erika L. “Exploring the Myths of the Southern Lady through the Writings of Elizabeth Scott Neblett.” Master’s thesis, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, 1995.
Rowe, Beverly J. "Changes in the Status of Texarkana, Texas, Women, 1880-1920." Ph.D, diss., University of North Texas, Denton, 1999.
Rowe, Beverly J. “How the Civil War Changed the Lives of Women in Southwest Arkansas and East Texas: A Thesis in History.” Thesis, East Texas State University, Texarkana, 1992.
Smith, Sherri L. "The history of Women's Athletics at Baylor University." Master's thesis, Baylor University, Waco, 2001.
Stuntz, Jean A. "His, Hers and Theirs: Domestic Relations and Marital Property Law in Texas to 1850." Doctoral diss., University of North Texas, Denton, 2000.
Watch here for more titles to come!
Bess, Jennifer J. "Equal Rights for All and Special Privileges for None: Women's Participation in the Farmers' Alliance of Texas." Master's thesis, University of Houston, Houston, 1998.
Harris, Miriam Kalman. "Claire Myers Owens: Life, Work, Art 1896-1983." Doctoral diss., University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, 1997.
Knippa, Heidi Ann. “Salvation of a University: The Admission of Women to Texas A&M.” Master’s thesis, The University of Texas, Austin, 1995.
Murr, Erika L. “Exploring the Myths of the Southern Lady through the Writings of Elizabeth Scott Neblett.” Master’s thesis, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, 1995.
Rowe, Beverly J. "Changes in the Status of Texarkana, Texas, Women, 1880-1920." Ph.D, diss., University of North Texas, Denton, 1999.
Rowe, Beverly J. “How the Civil War Changed the Lives of Women in Southwest Arkansas and East Texas: A Thesis in History.” Thesis, East Texas State University, Texarkana, 1992.
Smith, Sherri L. "The history of Women's Athletics at Baylor University." Master's thesis, Baylor University, Waco, 2001.
Stuntz, Jean A. "His, Hers and Theirs: Domestic Relations and Marital Property Law in Texas to 1850." Doctoral diss., University of North Texas, Denton, 2000.
Watch here for more titles to come!
Firsts by Texas Women
ALLEN, FRANCES DAISY EMERY. (1876-1958) Frances Allen was the first woman to graduate from medical school in Texas (Fort Worth University) (1897).
AMES, JESSIE HARRIET DANIEL. 1883-1972) Jessie Daniel Ames founded and served as the first president of the Texas League of Women Voters.
BELTRAM, LAURA C. Laura C. Beltram was the first Hispanic woman ordained a deacon in a Southern Baptist Church in Texas (1956).
BLANTON, ANNIE WEBB. Annie Webb Blanton was the first woman elected president of the Texas State Teachers Association, and two years later she was the first women elected to a statewide office when she became the state Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1918.
BRACKENRIDGE, ELEANOR. (1837-1924) Eleanor Brackenridge was one of the first women in the United States to serve on a financial institution's board of directors, the San Antonio Loan and Trust Company (1887). She reconvened and revitalized the Texas Woman Suffrage Association in 1913 which had been dormant since 1904 and was elected its first president.
BRADY, SUE HUFFMAN. Sue Huffman Brady organized and graded the public schools of Fort Worth and Decatur, Texas. She became the first superintendent of those schools and the first lady superintendent in Texas.
CISNEROS, EDNA. Edna Cisneros became the first Hispanic woman to be licensed in Texas an attorney in 1955.
COLEMAN, BESSIE. Bessie Coleman's achievement as "The worlds' first African American licensed pilot" was commemorated by the U.S. Postal Service with the issuance of a stamp in 1995. She received her license on June 15, 1921 in France.
CUNNINGHAM, MINNIE FISHER. Minnie Fisher Cunningham became the first Texas woman to run for the United States Senate in 1927. She became a candidate for Governor of Texas in 1944, but lost to incumbent Coke R. Stevenson. She was one of the first women to receive a degree in phaarmacy in Texas from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1901.
DELCO, WILHELMINA. Wilhelmina Delco was the first black elected to the Texas House of Representatives from Travis County in 1975. She became the first woman appointed speaker pro tempore of the Texas House of Representatives in 1991.
FARRIS, CHARLYE O. Charlye O. Farris was the first black Texas woman lawyer (1953). She graduated for Howard University Law School.
FERGUSON, MIRIAM AMANDA WALLACE. (1875-1961) Miriam Ferguson became the first woman to be elected Governor of Texas in 1924. She was elected to a second term as Governor of Texas in 1932.
FINNIGAN, ANNETTE. Annette Finnigan and her two sisters organized the Texas Women Suffrage Association in 1903.
GLASS, WILLIE LEE. Willie Lee Glass became the first black home economics consultant with the Texas Education Agency in 1950.
GILBERT, MRS. C. L. Mrs. C. L. Gilbert became the first black Democratic Precinct chair elected in Dallas.
HOBBY, OVETA CULP. (1905-1995) Oveta Culp Hobby became the first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps in 1942. She became the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
HOUSTON, TEMPLE. Temple Houston was the first child born in the Governor's mansion (1860)
HUGHES, SARAH TILGHMAN. (1896-1985) Sarah Hughes became the state's first female judge in 1931 and first woman state district judge in Texas in 1935. She became the first woman to serve as a federal district judge in Texas in 1961.
HUTCHISON, KAY BAILEY. Kay Bailey Hutchison became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1993. She was elected to be Texas State Treasurer in 1990 and held this office until she was elected to the U.S. Congress.
JOHNSON, EDDIE BERNICE. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas County was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1972 and served from 1973-1977. She was the first woman to lead a major Texas House Committee (Labor Committee). She was elected to the Texas Senate where she served from 1987 to 1993. She was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1993.
JOHNSON, ELIZA SOPHIA ROBERTSON. (1868-1926) Eliza Johnson was chosen by the Texas Delegation to be the first Democratic national committeewoman from Texas in 1920.
JORDAN, BARBARA. Barbara Jordan was sworn in as Governor for a day on June 10, 1972. She was the first Black woman to serve as governor of any state. She was elected to the Texas Senate from Harris County where she served from 1967 to 1973. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972. She was the first black woman from a Sourthern state to serve in Congress. She was the Congresswoman from Houston when she delivered her famous speech on the U.S. Constitution and impeachment: We, the People" in 1974. In 1992 Barbara Jordan gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
KING, KATIE and KOUNELIAS, STACEY. Katie King and Stacey Kounelias became president and vice president of the University of Texas at Austin's student body--the first time women had held these posts in the group's 100 year history.
LONG, JANE. Jane Long gave birth to Mary James, the first Anglo child to be born in Texas (1821).
MAFFETT, MINNIE LEE. Minnie Lee Maffett served as the first president of the Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
McCLURG, THE REVEREND PATRICIA. Patricia McClurg became the first woman to serve as president of the National Council of Churches in 1987, the largest ecumenical body in the United States.
MEHARG, EMMA GRIGSBY. (1873-1937) Emma Meharg was appointed secretary of state by Governor Miriam A., Ferguson. She was the first Texas woman secretary of state and served during 1925 and 1926.
Miers, Harriet. Harriet Miers became the first woman to be president-elect of the State Bar of Texas in 1991.
MINER, ISADORE SUTHERLAND (Pen Name: Pauline Periwinkle). Pauline Periwinkle became the first woman member of the editorial staff at the Dallas Morning News (1893).
NEAL, MARGIE ELIZABETH. (1875-1971) Margie Neal was the first woman elected to the Texas Senate.
OLIVERA, MERCEDES. Mercedes Olivera became the first women chonen to be Chairman of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board in 1987.
OWEN, MAY. (1892-1988) May Owen became the first woman elected president of the Texas Medical Association in 1960.
PATTERSON, LUCY. Lucy Patterson was the first black elected to the Dallas City Council in 1973.
POTTER, CLAUDIA. Claudia Potter joined the staff at the Temple Sanitarium (now Scott and White) in 1906 and was their first female physician and anesthesiologist. “She . . . became the first physician in a Texas hospital to administer gas anesthesia in 1908.”
RAGGIO LOUISE. Louise Raggio was the first woman prosecutor for Dallas County, the first woman director of the State Bar of Texas, the first woman trustee and chair of the Texas Bar Foundation, and the first recipient of the Dallas Bar Association’s Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award. In 1995 she received the prestigious American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.
RANGEL, IRMA. Irma Rangel of Kingsville became the first Tejana state representative in 1972.
ROGERS, LORENE. Lorene Rogers became the first woman named as president of a major state University--The University of Texas in Austin in 1974.
ROTAN, KATE STURM McCALL. (1851-1931) Kate Rotan was elected the first president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs in 1896.
STINSON, KATHRINE. Kathrine Stinson made her first solo flight in an open-air Wright Model B in 1912--eleven years before Charles Lindbergh started flight training. She was history's first skywriter and the first woman to loop-the-loop.
SUMMERS, LOUISE. Louise Summers became the first woman juror in Texas on Nov. 22, 1954 in the 152nd District Court of Harris County, Texas.
TAGLE, HILDA. Hilda Tagle won confirmation to a federal district judgeship in the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville in 1998. She is the first Mexican American woman to hold such a position in U.S. history.
THOMPSON, FRANCES TRASK. Frances Trask Thompson's school in Coles Settlement (later Independence) is recognized as the first boarding school for girls in Texas (1834).
THOMPSON, LINDA CHAVEZ. Linda Chavez Thompson was elected the first Hispanic female on the executive board of the national AFL-CIO in 1995.
TRIGG, EDNA WESTBROOK. (1868-1946) Edna Westbrook Trigg was the first home demonstration agent appointed in Texas in 1916.
WARD, HORTENSE (1875-1944) was admitted to the bar in 1910 and may have been the first woman licensed to practice law in Texas. She was appointed by Texas Governor Pat Neff as chief justice of the All-Woman Supreme Court in 1925.
WILMANS, EDITH EUNICE THERREL. (1882-1966) Edith Wilmans was the first woman elected to the Texas legislature in 1922.
ZAFFARINI, JUDITH. Judith Zaffarini became the first Tejana elected to the Texas Senate in 1986.
This is just the beginning of my list of Firsts by Texas women. To be continued . . .
AMES, JESSIE HARRIET DANIEL. 1883-1972) Jessie Daniel Ames founded and served as the first president of the Texas League of Women Voters.
BELTRAM, LAURA C. Laura C. Beltram was the first Hispanic woman ordained a deacon in a Southern Baptist Church in Texas (1956).
BLANTON, ANNIE WEBB. Annie Webb Blanton was the first woman elected president of the Texas State Teachers Association, and two years later she was the first women elected to a statewide office when she became the state Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1918.
BRACKENRIDGE, ELEANOR. (1837-1924) Eleanor Brackenridge was one of the first women in the United States to serve on a financial institution's board of directors, the San Antonio Loan and Trust Company (1887). She reconvened and revitalized the Texas Woman Suffrage Association in 1913 which had been dormant since 1904 and was elected its first president.
BRADY, SUE HUFFMAN. Sue Huffman Brady organized and graded the public schools of Fort Worth and Decatur, Texas. She became the first superintendent of those schools and the first lady superintendent in Texas.
CISNEROS, EDNA. Edna Cisneros became the first Hispanic woman to be licensed in Texas an attorney in 1955.
COLEMAN, BESSIE. Bessie Coleman's achievement as "The worlds' first African American licensed pilot" was commemorated by the U.S. Postal Service with the issuance of a stamp in 1995. She received her license on June 15, 1921 in France.
CUNNINGHAM, MINNIE FISHER. Minnie Fisher Cunningham became the first Texas woman to run for the United States Senate in 1927. She became a candidate for Governor of Texas in 1944, but lost to incumbent Coke R. Stevenson. She was one of the first women to receive a degree in phaarmacy in Texas from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1901.
DELCO, WILHELMINA. Wilhelmina Delco was the first black elected to the Texas House of Representatives from Travis County in 1975. She became the first woman appointed speaker pro tempore of the Texas House of Representatives in 1991.
FARRIS, CHARLYE O. Charlye O. Farris was the first black Texas woman lawyer (1953). She graduated for Howard University Law School.
FERGUSON, MIRIAM AMANDA WALLACE. (1875-1961) Miriam Ferguson became the first woman to be elected Governor of Texas in 1924. She was elected to a second term as Governor of Texas in 1932.
FINNIGAN, ANNETTE. Annette Finnigan and her two sisters organized the Texas Women Suffrage Association in 1903.
GLASS, WILLIE LEE. Willie Lee Glass became the first black home economics consultant with the Texas Education Agency in 1950.
GILBERT, MRS. C. L. Mrs. C. L. Gilbert became the first black Democratic Precinct chair elected in Dallas.
HOBBY, OVETA CULP. (1905-1995) Oveta Culp Hobby became the first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps in 1942. She became the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
HOUSTON, TEMPLE. Temple Houston was the first child born in the Governor's mansion (1860)
HUGHES, SARAH TILGHMAN. (1896-1985) Sarah Hughes became the state's first female judge in 1931 and first woman state district judge in Texas in 1935. She became the first woman to serve as a federal district judge in Texas in 1961.
HUTCHISON, KAY BAILEY. Kay Bailey Hutchison became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1993. She was elected to be Texas State Treasurer in 1990 and held this office until she was elected to the U.S. Congress.
JOHNSON, EDDIE BERNICE. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Dallas County was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1972 and served from 1973-1977. She was the first woman to lead a major Texas House Committee (Labor Committee). She was elected to the Texas Senate where she served from 1987 to 1993. She was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1993.
JOHNSON, ELIZA SOPHIA ROBERTSON. (1868-1926) Eliza Johnson was chosen by the Texas Delegation to be the first Democratic national committeewoman from Texas in 1920.
JORDAN, BARBARA. Barbara Jordan was sworn in as Governor for a day on June 10, 1972. She was the first Black woman to serve as governor of any state. She was elected to the Texas Senate from Harris County where she served from 1967 to 1973. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972. She was the first black woman from a Sourthern state to serve in Congress. She was the Congresswoman from Houston when she delivered her famous speech on the U.S. Constitution and impeachment: We, the People" in 1974. In 1992 Barbara Jordan gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
KING, KATIE and KOUNELIAS, STACEY. Katie King and Stacey Kounelias became president and vice president of the University of Texas at Austin's student body--the first time women had held these posts in the group's 100 year history.
LONG, JANE. Jane Long gave birth to Mary James, the first Anglo child to be born in Texas (1821).
MAFFETT, MINNIE LEE. Minnie Lee Maffett served as the first president of the Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
McCLURG, THE REVEREND PATRICIA. Patricia McClurg became the first woman to serve as president of the National Council of Churches in 1987, the largest ecumenical body in the United States.
MEHARG, EMMA GRIGSBY. (1873-1937) Emma Meharg was appointed secretary of state by Governor Miriam A., Ferguson. She was the first Texas woman secretary of state and served during 1925 and 1926.
Miers, Harriet. Harriet Miers became the first woman to be president-elect of the State Bar of Texas in 1991.
MINER, ISADORE SUTHERLAND (Pen Name: Pauline Periwinkle). Pauline Periwinkle became the first woman member of the editorial staff at the Dallas Morning News (1893).
NEAL, MARGIE ELIZABETH. (1875-1971) Margie Neal was the first woman elected to the Texas Senate.
OLIVERA, MERCEDES. Mercedes Olivera became the first women chonen to be Chairman of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Board in 1987.
OWEN, MAY. (1892-1988) May Owen became the first woman elected president of the Texas Medical Association in 1960.
PATTERSON, LUCY. Lucy Patterson was the first black elected to the Dallas City Council in 1973.
POTTER, CLAUDIA. Claudia Potter joined the staff at the Temple Sanitarium (now Scott and White) in 1906 and was their first female physician and anesthesiologist. “She . . . became the first physician in a Texas hospital to administer gas anesthesia in 1908.”
RAGGIO LOUISE. Louise Raggio was the first woman prosecutor for Dallas County, the first woman director of the State Bar of Texas, the first woman trustee and chair of the Texas Bar Foundation, and the first recipient of the Dallas Bar Association’s Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award. In 1995 she received the prestigious American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award.
RANGEL, IRMA. Irma Rangel of Kingsville became the first Tejana state representative in 1972.
ROGERS, LORENE. Lorene Rogers became the first woman named as president of a major state University--The University of Texas in Austin in 1974.
ROTAN, KATE STURM McCALL. (1851-1931) Kate Rotan was elected the first president of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs in 1896.
STINSON, KATHRINE. Kathrine Stinson made her first solo flight in an open-air Wright Model B in 1912--eleven years before Charles Lindbergh started flight training. She was history's first skywriter and the first woman to loop-the-loop.
SUMMERS, LOUISE. Louise Summers became the first woman juror in Texas on Nov. 22, 1954 in the 152nd District Court of Harris County, Texas.
TAGLE, HILDA. Hilda Tagle won confirmation to a federal district judgeship in the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville in 1998. She is the first Mexican American woman to hold such a position in U.S. history.
THOMPSON, FRANCES TRASK. Frances Trask Thompson's school in Coles Settlement (later Independence) is recognized as the first boarding school for girls in Texas (1834).
THOMPSON, LINDA CHAVEZ. Linda Chavez Thompson was elected the first Hispanic female on the executive board of the national AFL-CIO in 1995.
TRIGG, EDNA WESTBROOK. (1868-1946) Edna Westbrook Trigg was the first home demonstration agent appointed in Texas in 1916.
WARD, HORTENSE (1875-1944) was admitted to the bar in 1910 and may have been the first woman licensed to practice law in Texas. She was appointed by Texas Governor Pat Neff as chief justice of the All-Woman Supreme Court in 1925.
WILMANS, EDITH EUNICE THERREL. (1882-1966) Edith Wilmans was the first woman elected to the Texas legislature in 1922.
ZAFFARINI, JUDITH. Judith Zaffarini became the first Tejana elected to the Texas Senate in 1986.
This is just the beginning of my list of Firsts by Texas women. To be continued . . .
Articles about Texas Women
Acheson, Marjie Mugno. “BPW Unique Fund Raiser Honors ‘Mother of Equal Rights,’” WE-Women’s Enterprise, January 1996, pp. 26-27. [Commemorative phonecard raises scholarship funds to carry on Dallas Attorney Hermine Tobolowsky’s legacy and “to make opportunities available to women who are seeking an education so that they, too, can make a difference.”]
Aldave, Barbara Bader. “Women in the Law in Texas: The Stories of Three Pioneers,” St. Mary’s Law Journal 25, no. 1(1993): 289.
Attlesey, Sam. “When She Spoke, Barbara Jordan Created Memories,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A38. The article recalls several memorable speeches by Barbara Jordan following her death.
Baker, Marilyn. "Prairie to Presidency – Women Physicians Have Overcome Ignorance, Prejudice, and a Lack of Opportunity in the Past 150 Years to Take Their Rightful Place in Texas Medicine. Many of Them Also Have Assumed Positions of Leadership," Texas Medicine, 99, no. 1(2003): 61-69.
Banks, Melissa Joe. “The City Dairy,” Texas Historian 55, no. 4(May 1995): 5-7. [About Delia J. Staton, who operated the City Dairy in Jacksonville, Texas, for more than 25 years.]
Biffle, Kent. "The Tale of Two Goodnights," The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2002, 43A, 46A. Includes information about Corrine Goodnight, distant relative and widow of Charles Goodnight.
Bralley, F.M. “The Place and Function of the College of Industrial Arts in the Educational Scheme of the State,” The Texas Outlook 7, no. 1(January 1923): 34-35.
Bruce, W.H. “YES, Married Women Should Be Employed as Teachers in Texas Schools,” The Texas Outlook 10, no. 6(June 1926): 11-13.
Clifford, James O. “Texas Woman Sets Out to Finish Earhart Trip,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 18, 1997, A1, 10. San Antonio’s Linda Finch took off to complete Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated flight around the world.
Dingus, Anne. “Susanna Dickinson,” Texas Monthly 25, no. 3(March 1997): 308. Dickinson and her baby, Angelina, survived the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1838. She carried the news to the Texas army in Gonzales that the Alamo had been taken by General Santa Anna. She was born in 1814 and died in Austin in 1883.
Duckers, Sarah. "The First Woman Juror in Texas." The Houston Lawyer. Jan/Feb 2008. Miss Louise Summers, a bookkeeper at Cameron Iron Works, was the first woman juror in Texas. She served on November 22, 1954, in the 152nd District Court of Harris County, Texas. She was selected as jury foreperson.
Genusa, Angela. “As the Nation Celebrates National Women’s History Month, Attorney Louise Raggio Marks 40 Years of Righting Wrongs of Texas Law,” WE-Women Enterprise 4, no. 3(March 1996): 16-17.
Howard, Vicki. “The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 64-80. [The courtship of Lucia J. Knotts of Round Top, Texas, and Calvin Lindley Rhone.]
Huang, Thomas. “’So Beloved by People’: Friends Cherish Ex-Congresswoman’s Human Side,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A13. [Reminiscences by friends following the death of Barbara Jordan.]
Humphrey, David C. “Prostitution in Texas: From the 1830s to the 1960s,” East Texas Historical Journal 33, no. 1(1995): 27-43. [Includes information on Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, and Waco.]
Hunt, Sylvia. “’Throw Aside the Veil of Helplessness’: A Southern Feminist at the 1893 World’s Fair,” The Southern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 49-62. [About the paper Sue Huffman Brady, a Texas teacher, delivered at the Congress of Women in 1893.]
Maguire, Jack. “Jane Y. McCallum: Woman of Independence,” Etc.: The Magazine That Brings You More, March 1996, pp. 12-14.
McCarty, Kathryn Shane. “It Was Dead-Serious Humor for Texas Women in Government,” Nation’s Cities Weekly 13, no. 48(December 10, 1990): 5.
McDonald, E.L. “T.S.C.W. Launches Educational Experiment in Mexico,” The Texas Outlook 25, no. 11(November 1941): 52-53.
Mears, Michelle M. “Medicine on the Blackland Prairie: The Story of Dr. Claudia Potter,” Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2(Fall 1994): 36-46. [Dr. Potter was born in Denton, Texas, February 3, 1882. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1904.]
Mendelsohn, Jennifer. “Country’s Teen of Hearts,” Denton Record-Chronicle, USA Weekend Magazine, September 27-29, 1996, pp. cover, 4-5. [This is about the 14-year-old teenager from Garland, Texas, LeAnn Rimes, who “is up for two country music awards this week—tackles love songs with the best of her broken-hearted elders.”]
Miller, Robert. “WAVES Gather to Tell War Tales,” The Dallas Morning News, March 5, 1995, H7-8. [Includes information about work performed by Gladys Davis, Virginia Bollinger and Charmian Akins who were WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, during World War II.]
Moreno, Sylvia. “Voters Can Reshape Texas Government: Fate of Treasurer Among Ballot Items,” The Dallas Morning News, October 15, 1995, A43, 48-49. [Martha Whitehead, state treasurer, speaks in favor of abolishing the Texas Treasurer’s office in the forthcoming election.]
Myers, Cindi. “Daring Dr. Sophie,” True West 41, no. 7(July 1994): 45. [“Real life ‘medicine woman’ takes her healing skills to Texas.”]
Nichols, Bruce. “Family, Friends Bid Farewell to Jordan,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A1, 12. [About the funeral of former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Includes remarks of President Bill Clinton, Former Governor Ann Richards, Houston Mayor Bob Lanier; U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee; and Actress Cicelly Tyson.]
Ortolon, Ken. "Public Health – Midwifery Mess – Texas Midwives and Obstetricians Are at Odds Over Proposed State Rules That Physicians Say Will Expand Midwives' Role in Delivering Newborns Despite Concerns for the Safety of Pregnant Women and Their Babies," Texas Medicine, 98, no. 12(2002): 36-41.
Pederson, Rena. "Remember 'Texas Tornado'?" The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2002, 2J. [About Margo Jones "who started the regional theater movement in the United States, discovering playwrights like Tennessee Williams in the process and courageously producing plays like Inherit the Wind when no one else would."]
Pennybacker, Mrs. Percy V. “Teachers As Moulders of Public Opinion,” The Texas Outlook 8, no. 1(January 1924): 6-8.
Portilla-Lyon, Elizabeth de la. “Comanche and Mexican-American Curers: A Regional Approach to Folk Medicine,” Touchstone 14(1995): 70-90. [The author sets out various beliefs and practices gathered from five curanderos in San Antonio and from Comanches as found in published sources.]
Reaves, Gayle. “Struggle for Equality Called Slow: Women’s Right to Vote Was 1st Step in Process,” The Dallas Morning News, May, 28, 1995, A1, 23. [Includes information about the suffrage movement in Texas. Includes a photograph of Mrs. L.P. Evans of San Antonio casting her ballot in the November 1924 general election.]
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum. “Dale Evans,” SideSaddle, 1996, pp. 12-13. [1995 honoree of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Dale was born Frances Octavia Smith, October 31, 1912, in Uvalde, Texas.]
Sallee, Shelley. “The Woman of It”: Governor Miriam Ferguson’s 1924 Election,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 1-16.
Saltarelli, Mary. “A New Script for Grandbury Opera House,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 19, 1997, A19-20. [Actress Marty Van Kleeck becomes managing director of the Grandbury Opera House.]
Sharpless, M. Rebecca. “The Southern Majority: Interviews with Rural Texas Women,” Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2(Fall 1994): 2-10. [Includes information from oral interviews with six women. The author interviewed them about their experiences living on cotton farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie.]
Simnacher, Joe. “Lady Bird’s Flowers: First Lady of Native Plant Effort Opens New 42-acre Research Center,” The Dallas Morning News, March 26, 1995, A43, 45. [The National Wildflower Research Center, founded by Lady Bird Johnson 12 years ago, moves to its new home on 42 acres in Travis County about 10 miles southwest of downtown Austin.]
Simnacher, Joe. “Women’s Rights Advocate Hermine Tobolowsky Dies,” The Dallas Morning News, July 27, 1995, A1, 17. [Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky, Dallas lawyer, was widely regarded as the mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment’s passage followed a 25 year campaign by Mrs. Tobolowsky and others for women’s legal rights. She died July 25, 1995.]
This is just the beginning of my list of articles from Journals and Newspapers. To be continued shortly . . .
Aldave, Barbara Bader. “Women in the Law in Texas: The Stories of Three Pioneers,” St. Mary’s Law Journal 25, no. 1(1993): 289.
Attlesey, Sam. “When She Spoke, Barbara Jordan Created Memories,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A38. The article recalls several memorable speeches by Barbara Jordan following her death.
Baker, Marilyn. "Prairie to Presidency – Women Physicians Have Overcome Ignorance, Prejudice, and a Lack of Opportunity in the Past 150 Years to Take Their Rightful Place in Texas Medicine. Many of Them Also Have Assumed Positions of Leadership," Texas Medicine, 99, no. 1(2003): 61-69.
Banks, Melissa Joe. “The City Dairy,” Texas Historian 55, no. 4(May 1995): 5-7. [About Delia J. Staton, who operated the City Dairy in Jacksonville, Texas, for more than 25 years.]
Biffle, Kent. "The Tale of Two Goodnights," The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2002, 43A, 46A. Includes information about Corrine Goodnight, distant relative and widow of Charles Goodnight.
Bralley, F.M. “The Place and Function of the College of Industrial Arts in the Educational Scheme of the State,” The Texas Outlook 7, no. 1(January 1923): 34-35.
Bruce, W.H. “YES, Married Women Should Be Employed as Teachers in Texas Schools,” The Texas Outlook 10, no. 6(June 1926): 11-13.
Clifford, James O. “Texas Woman Sets Out to Finish Earhart Trip,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 18, 1997, A1, 10. San Antonio’s Linda Finch took off to complete Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated flight around the world.
Dingus, Anne. “Susanna Dickinson,” Texas Monthly 25, no. 3(March 1997): 308. Dickinson and her baby, Angelina, survived the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1838. She carried the news to the Texas army in Gonzales that the Alamo had been taken by General Santa Anna. She was born in 1814 and died in Austin in 1883.
Duckers, Sarah. "The First Woman Juror in Texas." The Houston Lawyer. Jan/Feb 2008. Miss Louise Summers, a bookkeeper at Cameron Iron Works, was the first woman juror in Texas. She served on November 22, 1954, in the 152nd District Court of Harris County, Texas. She was selected as jury foreperson.
Genusa, Angela. “As the Nation Celebrates National Women’s History Month, Attorney Louise Raggio Marks 40 Years of Righting Wrongs of Texas Law,” WE-Women Enterprise 4, no. 3(March 1996): 16-17.
Howard, Vicki. “The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 64-80. [The courtship of Lucia J. Knotts of Round Top, Texas, and Calvin Lindley Rhone.]
Huang, Thomas. “’So Beloved by People’: Friends Cherish Ex-Congresswoman’s Human Side,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A13. [Reminiscences by friends following the death of Barbara Jordan.]
Humphrey, David C. “Prostitution in Texas: From the 1830s to the 1960s,” East Texas Historical Journal 33, no. 1(1995): 27-43. [Includes information on Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, and Waco.]
Hunt, Sylvia. “’Throw Aside the Veil of Helplessness’: A Southern Feminist at the 1893 World’s Fair,” The Southern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 49-62. [About the paper Sue Huffman Brady, a Texas teacher, delivered at the Congress of Women in 1893.]
Maguire, Jack. “Jane Y. McCallum: Woman of Independence,” Etc.: The Magazine That Brings You More, March 1996, pp. 12-14.
McCarty, Kathryn Shane. “It Was Dead-Serious Humor for Texas Women in Government,” Nation’s Cities Weekly 13, no. 48(December 10, 1990): 5.
McDonald, E.L. “T.S.C.W. Launches Educational Experiment in Mexico,” The Texas Outlook 25, no. 11(November 1941): 52-53.
Mears, Michelle M. “Medicine on the Blackland Prairie: The Story of Dr. Claudia Potter,” Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2(Fall 1994): 36-46. [Dr. Potter was born in Denton, Texas, February 3, 1882. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1904.]
Mendelsohn, Jennifer. “Country’s Teen of Hearts,” Denton Record-Chronicle, USA Weekend Magazine, September 27-29, 1996, pp. cover, 4-5. [This is about the 14-year-old teenager from Garland, Texas, LeAnn Rimes, who “is up for two country music awards this week—tackles love songs with the best of her broken-hearted elders.”]
Miller, Robert. “WAVES Gather to Tell War Tales,” The Dallas Morning News, March 5, 1995, H7-8. [Includes information about work performed by Gladys Davis, Virginia Bollinger and Charmian Akins who were WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, during World War II.]
Moreno, Sylvia. “Voters Can Reshape Texas Government: Fate of Treasurer Among Ballot Items,” The Dallas Morning News, October 15, 1995, A43, 48-49. [Martha Whitehead, state treasurer, speaks in favor of abolishing the Texas Treasurer’s office in the forthcoming election.]
Myers, Cindi. “Daring Dr. Sophie,” True West 41, no. 7(July 1994): 45. [“Real life ‘medicine woman’ takes her healing skills to Texas.”]
Nichols, Bruce. “Family, Friends Bid Farewell to Jordan,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A1, 12. [About the funeral of former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Includes remarks of President Bill Clinton, Former Governor Ann Richards, Houston Mayor Bob Lanier; U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee; and Actress Cicelly Tyson.]
Ortolon, Ken. "Public Health – Midwifery Mess – Texas Midwives and Obstetricians Are at Odds Over Proposed State Rules That Physicians Say Will Expand Midwives' Role in Delivering Newborns Despite Concerns for the Safety of Pregnant Women and Their Babies," Texas Medicine, 98, no. 12(2002): 36-41.
Pederson, Rena. "Remember 'Texas Tornado'?" The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2002, 2J. [About Margo Jones "who started the regional theater movement in the United States, discovering playwrights like Tennessee Williams in the process and courageously producing plays like Inherit the Wind when no one else would."]
Pennybacker, Mrs. Percy V. “Teachers As Moulders of Public Opinion,” The Texas Outlook 8, no. 1(January 1924): 6-8.
Portilla-Lyon, Elizabeth de la. “Comanche and Mexican-American Curers: A Regional Approach to Folk Medicine,” Touchstone 14(1995): 70-90. [The author sets out various beliefs and practices gathered from five curanderos in San Antonio and from Comanches as found in published sources.]
Reaves, Gayle. “Struggle for Equality Called Slow: Women’s Right to Vote Was 1st Step in Process,” The Dallas Morning News, May, 28, 1995, A1, 23. [Includes information about the suffrage movement in Texas. Includes a photograph of Mrs. L.P. Evans of San Antonio casting her ballot in the November 1924 general election.]
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum. “Dale Evans,” SideSaddle, 1996, pp. 12-13. [1995 honoree of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Dale was born Frances Octavia Smith, October 31, 1912, in Uvalde, Texas.]
Sallee, Shelley. “The Woman of It”: Governor Miriam Ferguson’s 1924 Election,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 1-16.
Saltarelli, Mary. “A New Script for Grandbury Opera House,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 19, 1997, A19-20. [Actress Marty Van Kleeck becomes managing director of the Grandbury Opera House.]
Sharpless, M. Rebecca. “The Southern Majority: Interviews with Rural Texas Women,” Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2(Fall 1994): 2-10. [Includes information from oral interviews with six women. The author interviewed them about their experiences living on cotton farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie.]
Simnacher, Joe. “Lady Bird’s Flowers: First Lady of Native Plant Effort Opens New 42-acre Research Center,” The Dallas Morning News, March 26, 1995, A43, 45. [The National Wildflower Research Center, founded by Lady Bird Johnson 12 years ago, moves to its new home on 42 acres in Travis County about 10 miles southwest of downtown Austin.]
Simnacher, Joe. “Women’s Rights Advocate Hermine Tobolowsky Dies,” The Dallas Morning News, July 27, 1995, A1, 17. [Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky, Dallas lawyer, was widely regarded as the mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment’s passage followed a 25 year campaign by Mrs. Tobolowsky and others for women’s legal rights. She died July 25, 1995.]
This is just the beginning of my list of articles from Journals and Newspapers. To be continued shortly . . .
Books on Texas Women's History
Black Women in Texas History. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN 9781603440318. [A chronological look at the experience of African-American women in Texas through eight essays covering from slavery to the beginning of the 20th century.]
Chipman, Donald and Harriet Denise Joseph. Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas: Men and Women of Spanish Texas. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Davis, Ronald L. Mary Martin, Broadway Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. pp. 328. ISBN 9780806139050. [Biography of Mary Martin, 1913-1990, born in Weatherford, Texas.]
Hendrickson, Kenneth E. Chief Executives of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. [Includes Miriam Ferguson.]
Hutchison, Kay Bailey. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped our Country. New York: William Morrow, 2004. [Includes: Mary Austin Holley, Ann Raney Coleman, Jane Long, Adina DeZavala, Clara Driscoll, Anne Legendre Armstrong, Selena Quintanilla, Sally Ride, Sandra Day O’Connor, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias.]
Irwin, Mary Ann and James Brooks. Women and Gender in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. [Includes essay: “Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers’ Activism, 1919-1974” by Irene Ledesma.]
Jackson, Sarah Ragland. Texas Woman of Letters: Karle Wilson Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [Biography of Texas poet.]
Mackintosh, Prudence. Just As We Were: A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Mark, Eva H. A Brief History of the Denton County Federation of Women’s Clubs. Denton, Tex.: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1976.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle: Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1998. 199 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-252-02376-7 (Hardback). ISBN 13-978-0-252-06679-5 (paperback). [This is one of the textbooks I use in my Women in Texas History class]
McArthur, Judith N. Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 266 pp. [Also available electronically through NetLibrary, Inc.]
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Daughter of Fortune: The Betty Brown Story. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1997.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Red River Women. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1996. [Women of the West Series. A Collection of biographies of eight North Texas women.]
McNair, Joseph D. Barbara Jordan: African American Politician. Chanhassen, MN: Child’s World, 2001.
McQueary, Carl Randall and May Nelson Paulissen. Ma’s in the Kitchen: You’ll Know When It’s Done: The Recipes and History of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, First Woman Governor of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1994.
Montgomery, Rosalis. Lady in Waiting, 1944-1945. Austin, Tex.: Nortex Press, 1995.
[“A collection of letters written the last two years of World War II by the author to Col. James Robert Montgomery.”—Dust Jacket.]
Morin, Isobel V. Women of the U.S. Congress. Minneapolis: Oliver Press, 1994. [Includes Barbara Jordan.]
Morrow, Herbert C. Women's Army Corps Buildings, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, El Paso County, Texas. Fort Bliss, Tex.: Cultural Resources Branch, Directorate of Environment, 1995.
Nash, Sunny. Bigmama Didn’t Shop at Woolworth’s. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. [Award winning writer, photographer, and television producer, Sunny Nash writes about her grandmother and growing up in Candy Hill, a segregated neighborhood in Bryan, Texas, in the 1950s in a time of segregation and change.]
Neblett, Elizabeth Scott. A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Paulissen, May Nelson and McQueary, Carl R. Miriam: The Southern Belle Who Became the First Woman Governor of Texas, Miriam Amanda Ferguson. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1995.
[Biography of Governor Miriam Ferguson.]
Payne, Darwin. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Forward by Barefoot Sanders. Afterword by Sarah Weddington. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.
Perry, Nellie M. and Sandra Gail Teichmann. Woman of the Plains: The Journals and Stories of Nellie M. Perry. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press, 2000.
Pierce, Paula Jo and Liz Carpenter. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Puryear, Pamela Ashworth. Dressing Victorian: Being a Brief Overview of Women's Victorian Clothing in Texas, 1837-1900; with Notes on Recreation of the Styles. Brenham, Tex.: Hermann Print Shop, 1987.
Quarles, Deborah. “Lewisville Woman Takes Silver at Pan Am,” Denton Record Chronicle, March 15, 1995, C1-2. [Gypsy Lyn Lucas, a 20-year-old roller speed skater, won second place in the Women’s 500-meter race at the Pan American Games in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.]
Ramsey, Jr., Jack C. Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries: Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2001.
Reynolds, Clay. A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Fort Worth, Tex.: Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, 1995.
[Includes information about Texas women, such as the Boys and Girls Hog Club Show, Cowgirls, Girls Rodeo Association, Kirmiss (a debutante-like presentation of young ladies at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show), Tad Lucas, Prostitution, Daughters of Southwestern Ranchers, and Glamour Girl competition.]
Rice, Melinda. Lone Star Ladies: A Travel Guide to Women's History in Texas. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.
Rowe, Beverly J. Women's Status in Texarkana, Texas in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Russell, Charles H. Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [A biography of Elise Waerenskjold. “Opens a window into immigrant life in Texas’ Norwegian colonies from 1847 to the end of the nineteenth century.”]
Sanders, Marc, Ruthe Winegarten, and Harry Robinson, Jr. The Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Publications, 2002.
Seagraves, Anne. High Spirited Women of the West. Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1992. [Includes Belle Starr, pp. 101-121.]
Shire, Al, compiler and editor. Oveta Culp Hobby. Houston, Tex.: Western Lithograph, 1997.
Siegel, Dorothy Schainman. Ann Richards: Politician, Feminist, Survivor. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. [From childhood in Lakeview, Texas, to the Governor’s mansion.]
Silverthorne, Elizabeth and Geneva Fulgham. Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Sizemore, Evelyn. The Turtle Lady: Ila Fox Loetscher of South Padre. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Snapp, Elizabeth and Harry F. Snapp. Read All About Her! Texas Women's History: A Working Bibliography. Denton, TX: Texas Woman's University Press, 1995. 1,070 pp. ISBN 0-9607488-3-0 (Hardback)
Spruill, Marjorie Julian. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995. [Includes essay: “Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s back door lobby in Texas: Political Maneuvering in a one-party state,” by Judith N. McArthur.
Stillwell, Hallie Crawford. My Goose Is Cooked: The Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman’s Story. Assembled by Betty Heath. Edited by Kelly S. Garcia. Alpine, TX: Center for Big Bend Studies, 2004.
Taylor, Quintard and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. [Includes in Chapter 3: The Antebellum West: A Texas Slave’s Letter to her Husband, 1862, and Chapter 15: Lulu B. White and the Integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 by Merline Pitre.]
Watch here for new titles being added each week . . .
Chipman, Donald and Harriet Denise Joseph. Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas: Men and Women of Spanish Texas. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Davis, Ronald L. Mary Martin, Broadway Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. pp. 328. ISBN 9780806139050. [Biography of Mary Martin, 1913-1990, born in Weatherford, Texas.]
Hendrickson, Kenneth E. Chief Executives of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. [Includes Miriam Ferguson.]
Hutchison, Kay Bailey. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped our Country. New York: William Morrow, 2004. [Includes: Mary Austin Holley, Ann Raney Coleman, Jane Long, Adina DeZavala, Clara Driscoll, Anne Legendre Armstrong, Selena Quintanilla, Sally Ride, Sandra Day O’Connor, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias.]
Irwin, Mary Ann and James Brooks. Women and Gender in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. [Includes essay: “Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers’ Activism, 1919-1974” by Irene Ledesma.]
Jackson, Sarah Ragland. Texas Woman of Letters: Karle Wilson Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [Biography of Texas poet.]
Mackintosh, Prudence. Just As We Were: A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Mark, Eva H. A Brief History of the Denton County Federation of Women’s Clubs. Denton, Tex.: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1976.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle: Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1998. 199 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-252-02376-7 (Hardback). ISBN 13-978-0-252-06679-5 (paperback). [This is one of the textbooks I use in my Women in Texas History class]
McArthur, Judith N. Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 266 pp. [Also available electronically through NetLibrary, Inc.]
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Daughter of Fortune: The Betty Brown Story. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1997.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Red River Women. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1996. [Women of the West Series. A Collection of biographies of eight North Texas women.]
McNair, Joseph D. Barbara Jordan: African American Politician. Chanhassen, MN: Child’s World, 2001.
McQueary, Carl Randall and May Nelson Paulissen. Ma’s in the Kitchen: You’ll Know When It’s Done: The Recipes and History of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, First Woman Governor of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1994.
Montgomery, Rosalis. Lady in Waiting, 1944-1945. Austin, Tex.: Nortex Press, 1995.
[“A collection of letters written the last two years of World War II by the author to Col. James Robert Montgomery.”—Dust Jacket.]
Morin, Isobel V. Women of the U.S. Congress. Minneapolis: Oliver Press, 1994. [Includes Barbara Jordan.]
Morrow, Herbert C. Women's Army Corps Buildings, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, El Paso County, Texas. Fort Bliss, Tex.: Cultural Resources Branch, Directorate of Environment, 1995.
Nash, Sunny. Bigmama Didn’t Shop at Woolworth’s. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. [Award winning writer, photographer, and television producer, Sunny Nash writes about her grandmother and growing up in Candy Hill, a segregated neighborhood in Bryan, Texas, in the 1950s in a time of segregation and change.]
Neblett, Elizabeth Scott. A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Paulissen, May Nelson and McQueary, Carl R. Miriam: The Southern Belle Who Became the First Woman Governor of Texas, Miriam Amanda Ferguson. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1995.
[Biography of Governor Miriam Ferguson.]
Payne, Darwin. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Forward by Barefoot Sanders. Afterword by Sarah Weddington. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.
Perry, Nellie M. and Sandra Gail Teichmann. Woman of the Plains: The Journals and Stories of Nellie M. Perry. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press, 2000.
Pierce, Paula Jo and Liz Carpenter. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Puryear, Pamela Ashworth. Dressing Victorian: Being a Brief Overview of Women's Victorian Clothing in Texas, 1837-1900; with Notes on Recreation of the Styles. Brenham, Tex.: Hermann Print Shop, 1987.
Quarles, Deborah. “Lewisville Woman Takes Silver at Pan Am,” Denton Record Chronicle, March 15, 1995, C1-2. [Gypsy Lyn Lucas, a 20-year-old roller speed skater, won second place in the Women’s 500-meter race at the Pan American Games in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.]
Ramsey, Jr., Jack C. Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries: Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2001.
Reynolds, Clay. A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Fort Worth, Tex.: Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, 1995.
[Includes information about Texas women, such as the Boys and Girls Hog Club Show, Cowgirls, Girls Rodeo Association, Kirmiss (a debutante-like presentation of young ladies at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show), Tad Lucas, Prostitution, Daughters of Southwestern Ranchers, and Glamour Girl competition.]
Rice, Melinda. Lone Star Ladies: A Travel Guide to Women's History in Texas. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.
Rowe, Beverly J. Women's Status in Texarkana, Texas in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Russell, Charles H. Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [A biography of Elise Waerenskjold. “Opens a window into immigrant life in Texas’ Norwegian colonies from 1847 to the end of the nineteenth century.”]
Sanders, Marc, Ruthe Winegarten, and Harry Robinson, Jr. The Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Publications, 2002.
Seagraves, Anne. High Spirited Women of the West. Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1992. [Includes Belle Starr, pp. 101-121.]
Shire, Al, compiler and editor. Oveta Culp Hobby. Houston, Tex.: Western Lithograph, 1997.
Siegel, Dorothy Schainman. Ann Richards: Politician, Feminist, Survivor. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. [From childhood in Lakeview, Texas, to the Governor’s mansion.]
Silverthorne, Elizabeth and Geneva Fulgham. Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Sizemore, Evelyn. The Turtle Lady: Ila Fox Loetscher of South Padre. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Snapp, Elizabeth and Harry F. Snapp. Read All About Her! Texas Women's History: A Working Bibliography. Denton, TX: Texas Woman's University Press, 1995. 1,070 pp. ISBN 0-9607488-3-0 (Hardback)
Spruill, Marjorie Julian. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995. [Includes essay: “Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s back door lobby in Texas: Political Maneuvering in a one-party state,” by Judith N. McArthur.
Stillwell, Hallie Crawford. My Goose Is Cooked: The Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman’s Story. Assembled by Betty Heath. Edited by Kelly S. Garcia. Alpine, TX: Center for Big Bend Studies, 2004.
Taylor, Quintard and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. [Includes in Chapter 3: The Antebellum West: A Texas Slave’s Letter to her Husband, 1862, and Chapter 15: Lulu B. White and the Integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 by Merline Pitre.]
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