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Mar 12, 2021 · After a childhood spent staring at the stars, Astronaut Stephanie D. Wilson has logged over 42 days in space. During the historic all-woman spacewalk in 2019, Wilson was the voice of mission control guiding astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch. Wilson earned a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering at UT in 1992 where she researched ...
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1. Jane Long (1798-1880) Jane Long will always be remembered as the mother of Texas. One of the earliest pioneers to make Texas her home, it is believed that she was one of the first English-speaking women to bear a child in Texas. Migrating from Mississippi at the beginning of the 19thCentury, she and her husband, James Long, settled at Bolivar Po...
5. Dale Evans (1912-2001) If you have ever heard the tune Happy Trailsand were reminded of the famous cowboy Roy Rogers, you are missing half of the picture. It was Dale Evans who wrote this signature song and taught it to Roy and the Sons of the Pioneers a mere 40 minutes before a performance one evening. Dale Evans, originally from Uvalde, Texas,...
9. Elisabet Ney (1833-1907) Originally from Germany, Elisabet studied sculpture in both Munich and Berlin and gained a reputation as a talented sculptor, sculpting the likenesses of such prominent individuals as Queen Victoria and George V. Elisabet immigrated to the United States at the time of the Franco-Prussian war, initially moving to Georgia,...
11. Babe Didrikson Zaharias(1911-1956) “The Amazing Amazon,” “Belting Babe,” “The Texas Tomboy,” and “The Texas Babe” are just a few of the nicknames that Mildred Ella Didrikson adopted in her long and varied athletic career. Babe was an animated individual who seemed to excel in every sport she pursued. Her athletic career began with sandlot baseb...
13. Carrie Marcus(1883-1953) Carrie Marcus began her career in fashion as a blouse buyer and saleswoman at A. Harris and Company and by the age of 21 had become one of the highest paid working women in Dallas. In 1905 she married Abraham Lincoln (Al) Neiman, and together with her brother Herbert opened a sales promotion business in Atlanta, Georgia...
16. Amanda ‘Ma’ Ferguson(1875-1961) “Me for Ma, and I ain’t got a dern thing against Pa!” was the campaign slogan that carried Amanda ‘Ma’ Ferguson into the governor’s office in 1924. Ferguson was the first woman to become governor of Texas and ultimately served two terms. It has been said that it was her husband and former governor, Jim Ferguson, ...
21. Emma Tenayuca(1916-1999) Pecan shelling was an enormous industry in San Antonio during the Depression years, and at this time workers in the industry were paid very little (approximately six cents per pound of pecans). In addition, working conditions in the industry were terrible. The dust in the air from the pecans created a high rate of tuber...
23. Caro Brown(1908-2001) It was 1954 when, in the midst of a scuffle, Texas Ranger Alfred Y. “Cap” Allee stuck a pistol in the ribs of notorious south Texas political boss George Parr fully intending to ventilate his torso. At this point Caro Brown stepped between the two and convinced “Cap” not to kill him. Just another day at the office for the ...
26. Belle Starr, (1848-1889) Belle Starr better known as the “Bandit Queen of Dallas,” was a woman of legendary status, known for her expert equestrian skills, scandalous love affairs, and brazen acts of outlaw. She was by no means a typical lady of the 19thcentury. She supported herself by singing in dance halls, dealing poker, and running a liver...
28. Sarah T. Hughes(b. 1896-1985) At 2:38 p.m. on November 22, 1963, Judge Sarah T. Hughes administered the oath of office to Lyndon Baines Johnson just 98 minutes after John Kennedy, the president who had appointed her to the federal bench months earlier, was pronounced dead. In 1922, when she began practicing law, women were not allowed to sit on...
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The Handbook of Texas Women project strives to expand on the Handbook of Texas by promoting a more inclusive and comprehensive history of Texas.Texas women make Texas history, and TSHA wants to significantly recognize the various ways women have shaped the state’s history at home, across the state, nationally, and abroad.
Apr 14, 2021 · The Texas Women’s History Project (TWHP) was created in Austin in 1978 by the Texas Foundation for Women’s Resources (TFWR), a nonprofit group of politically active Anglo women (Ann Richards, Sarah Weddington, Jane Hickie, Judith Guthrie, Cathy Bonner, and Martha Smiley). Based on a suggestion by Ann Richards, the TFWR hoped to collaborate ...
There are three main strains of Texas womanhood: Southern, Western, and Mexican. The Southern influence produced women who are mannered, proper, a bit formal, and rooted. Lady Bird Johnson is the ...
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Ann Richards, Farrah Fawcett, Beyoncé. An excerpt from TM’s new book, ‘Being Texan,’ explores a strain of toughness in the iconography of the state’s females.
Women in Texas History. Contributor: Angela Boswell, Ph.D. Link: Women in Texas History. In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From ...
