22/06/2024
In progress, Jovita Idar south Texas / Mexico feminist writer, editor , publisher, teacher, ✔️small press ✔️ protected her newspaper against Texas rangers ✔️ left teaching to work at newspaper to effect change ✔️ Texas rangers would go back to destroy the printing press
"As a reporter, Idar wrote in the muckraking journalism tradition about segregation, lynching, women’s and children’s rights, and exposed other injustices endured by Mexican Texans, or Tejanos, under Juan Crow or Jaime Crow laws in the early 20th century. Idar sometimes wrote under two pseudonyms: A. V. Negra, meaning Black Bird, or Astrea, the Greek goddess of justice. Following the brutal lynching of Antonio Gómez, a 14-year old Mexican American boy in Thorndale Texas, Idar and her family organized El Primer Congreso Mexicanista (First Mexicanist Congress) in 1911, a convention that kickstarted the modern Mexican American civil rights movement. Following the Congress, Idar helped create La Liga Femenil Mexicanista (League of Mexican Women), one of the first known Latina feminist organizations, and served as its first president. The organization focused on women’s suffrage, quality and free education for Tejano youth, and provided food, clothing, and school supplies to children."
https://unladylike2020.com/profile/jovita-idar/
