Students in my Class this Summer (2009) at Texas Woman's University will select and research information about the accomplishments of one of the following Texas women. These names have been suggested by students in previous classes as worthy of inclusion in future Texas history textbooks:
Eleanor Brackinridge
Bessie Coleman
Wilhelminia Delco
Sarah T. Hughes
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Louise Raggio
Lorene Rogers
Hilda Tagle
Hortense Ward and
Edith Eunice Wilmans.
The student's assignment is to prepare an essay of a few paragraphs in length (75 to 100 words). The essay is to include only the most important information they find in their research about their chosen Texas woman from this list. The essay must make every effort to convince the professional historians writing Texas history textbooks that their Texas woman is worthy of inclusion in the textbook. They will submit these essays to this Blog by Friday, July 31st. The following week the students will read each other's essays and vote on the top three Texas women whom they are convinced deserve inclusion in future Texas history textbooks based on the collective research findings of their classmates.
NOTE: I am going to paste the student essays for them under a separate Post entitled "Student Posts on Texas Women." Some students have not posted to a BLOG before and it is taking time most of them here at the end of the semester do not have to get the number of words down to 100 in order for their paper to post. This is a new assignment also for me so this, too, is a learning experience for me. So stay with us as we work this out. I think you will enjoy their essays.
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Sarah T. Hughes—police officer, lawyer, legislator, state judge and federal judge—in her lifetime, she saw a lot of ‘firsts’. She was one of the first women elected to the Texas legislature in 1930, just ten years after women won the right to vote. She was the first woman elected state judge, and President Kennedy appointed her as a federal judge, the first woman in Texas to do so. As a federal judge, she served on a three-judge panel which heard Roe v. Wade. When President Kennedy was assassinated, she swore President Johnson in as President of the United States—the only women ever to do so.
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Babcock, Kaycie Czeluta and Professor. "Women's Legal History Stanford University." Grace Under Pressure: Judge Sarah T. Hughes and the Cases that Shook Texas, April 5, 2002: 1-45.
Frantz, Joe B. Sarah T. Hughes Oral History Interview. October 7, 1968. http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/HUGHES-S/hughes-s.pdf (accessed July 18, 2009).
Judge Sarah T. Hughes collection. June 11, 2009. http://www.library.unt.edu/archives/historical-manuscripts/historical-manuscripts-exhibits/hughes/ (accessed July 19, 2009).
LaForte, Robert S. Sarah Tilghman Hughes. Texas State Historical Association. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/fhu68.html (accessed July 18, 2009).