Villarreal, Ramona
Ramona Villarreal was born in 1954 in Laredo, Texas. When she was very young her family traveled back and forth between Texas and the Midwest to work on farms as migrant workers. In 1968 they settled...
View ArticleHerrera, Anita
Anita Herrera was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1935. She was the 7th in a family of 9 children whose parents had also been born in Texas; their grandparents were born in Mexico. When Anita was 6...
View ArticleMorales, Maria Luisa
Maria Luisa Morales was born into a family of migrant farm workers in Cotulla, Texas, in 1944. At a very young age, she noticed inequality around her. She remembers, for instance, that “migrant workers...
View ArticleGordon, Ann D.
Ann D. Gordon was born in 1944 in Providence, Rhode Island. While majoring in history at Smith College (in Northampton, Massachusetts) in the early 1960s, she became passionate about political issues....
View ArticleJames, Ada
Ada Lois James lived in Richland Center, Wisconsin, for her whole life. Both of her parents actively supported rights for women, including the right to vote (suffrage). Her mother, Laura Briggs James,...
View ArticleHansberry, Lorraine
Lorraine Hansberry grew up in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s. Because of a kind of housing discrimination called racially restrictive covenants, there were some neighborhoods where Black people were...
View ArticleSuffrage, Wisconsin Women and
For over 70 years, many Wisconsin women fought for suffrage, or the right to vote. While their attempts to add a suffrage amendment to the state constitution failed, they would succeed in ensuring...
View ArticleCrenshaw, Kimberlé
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was born in 1959 in Canton, Ohio. After high school, she attended Cornell University, where she graduated with a B.A. in government and Africana studies in 1981. She then...
View ArticleFavor Hamilton, Suzy
Suzanne “Suzy” Favor was born in 1968 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. She realized at a young age that she loved running; after winning a race in fifth grade, she thought, “This is what I want to do with...
View ArticleGil Casado, Debora
Debora Gil R. Casado was born Debora Gil Rodriguez in 1957 in Ashland, Wisconsin. Her parents had moved to the United States from Spain because her father was hired to teach Spanish to American school...
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