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 . . .