Jovita Idar

Jovita Idar was a journalist, teacher, and activist in south Texas in the early 20th century. And she was s a force to be reckoned with. Research: "Jovita Idár." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 2023. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/UVOEMC160154646/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=723c10b3. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024. "The Wind That Swept Mexico." The Hispanic-American Experience, Primary Source Media, 1999. American Journey. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2159000020/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=4cb53122. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024. "The Wind That Swept Mexico." The Hispanic-American Experience, Primary Source Media, 1999. American Journey. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/EJ2159000020/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=4cb53122. 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Lomas, Clara. “Transborder Discourse: The Articulation of Gender in the Borderlands in the Early Twentieth Century.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume 24, Number 2 & 3, 2003, pp. 51-74. https://doi.org/10.1353/fro.2004.0020 Masarik, Elizabeth Garner. “Por la Raza, Para la Raza: Jovita Idar and Progressive-Era Mexicana Maternalism along the Texas–Mexico Border.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 122, Number 3, January 2019, pp. 278-299. https://doi.org/10.1353/swh.2019.0019 Medina, Jennifer. “Overlooked No More: Jovita Idár, Who Promoted Rights of Mexican-Americans and Women.” New York Times. 8/7/2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/obituaries/jovita-idar-overlooked.html Nancy Baker Jones Revised by Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, “Idár, Jovita,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 19, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/idar-jovita. Nancy Baker Jones, “Villegas de Magnon, Leonor,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 21, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/villegas-de-magnon-leonor. Nunn, Dr. Tey Marianna. “¡Que Viva Jovita! Celebrating Journalist and Activist, Jovita Idar.” Smithsonian American Women’s History Musuem. 9/11/2023. https://womenshistory.si.edu/blog/que-viva-jovita-celebrating-journalist-and-activist-jovita-idar Rebeca Anne Todd Koenig, “Rodriguez, Antonio,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 19, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rodriguez-antonio. Richardson, Sarah. "TODA LA FAMILIA." American History, vol. 56, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 22+. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A659491669/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=4ac3c382. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024. Rogin, Ali. “Jovita Idar’s fight for the rights of women and Mexican immigrants.” PBS News Weekend. 10/1/2023. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/jovita-idars-fight-for-the-rights-of-women-and-mexican-immigrants Rolando Duarte, “Joint Committee of the Senate and the House in the Investigation of the Texas State Ranger Force [Canales Investigation],” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 22, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/joint-committee-of-the-senate-and-the-house-in-the-investigation-of-the-texas-state-ranger-force-canales-investigation. Teresa Palomo Acosta, “Idar, Nicasio,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 19, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/idar-nicasio. Teresa Palomo Acosta, “La Crónica,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed August 19, 2024, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/la-cronica. University of Texas at San Antonio. “Jovita Idar Quarter Release Celebration.” 9/14/2023. Via YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLgC_fzU9nQ&t=3s University of Texas San Antonio. Jovita Idar Quarter Release Celebration. https://jovitaidar.utsa.edu/jovita-idar/ US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections. “Who was Leonor Villegas de Magnón?” https://usldhrecovery.uh.edu/exhibits/show/la-rebelde-exhibit-2/leonor-villegas-de-magn--n UTSA Today. “UTSA history professor Gabriela Gonzalez is preserving unknown stories of transborder activists.” 09/14/2023. https://www.utsa.edu/today/2023/09/story/gabriela-gonzalez-interview.html Villegas de Magnón, Leonor. “The Rebel.” Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press. 1994. Young, Elliott. “Deconstructing ‘La Raza’: Identifying the "Gente Decente" of Laredo, 1904-1911. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Oct. 1994. Vol. 98 No. 2. Via JSTOR. : http://www.jstor.com/stable/30241459 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.