When and Where | |
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Time | 1pm to 3pm |
Address | Zimmerman Library, Room B30 |
City, State | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Date | October 27th, 2016 |
Women of New Mexico in the 1960s and beyond edit
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- Date: October 27th, 2016
- Time: 1-3 pm
- Location: University of New Mexico, Zimmerman Library, Room B30
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Possible topics for editing / new articles to create edit
1960s: edit
- Alice Bullock - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
- Dorothy I. Cline - UNM professor (RMOA collection inventory)
- Linda Durham - hippie and Santa Fe art dealer
- LaDonna Harris - social activist, politician (RMOA collection inventory)
- Eunice Kalloch - health and environmental activist (RMOA collection inventory)
- Agnes Martin - painter
- Margaret Prince - activist, politician (RMOA collection inventory)
- Annie Dodge Wauneka - Navajo health and education activist; started Navajo-language radio program (1960) (RMOA collection inventory)
Artists: edit
- Mary Greene Blumenschein - Taos artist, illustrator, jewelry designer
- Dorothy Brett - artist, writer; associate of D. H. Lawrence (RMOA collection inventory)
- Judy Chicago - feminist artist
- Laura Gilpin - photographer
- Anne Windfohr Marion - art patron, philanthropist, founder of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
- Maria Martinez - artist, potter
- Nedra Matteucci - Santa Fe art patron
- Georgia O'Keeffe - painter
- Cecilia Portal - photographer (RMOA collection inventory)
- Millicent Rogers - Taos art collector
- Susan Rothenberg - painter
- Charlene Teters - Native American activist, artist, educator
- Pablita Velarde - painter
Writers: edit
- Paula Gunn Allen - Laguna Pueblo writer
- Mary Austin - writer, founder of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society (RMOA collection inventory)
- Ruth Laughlin Barker - author; book Cabelleros depicts her childhood in Santa Fe
- Alice Bullock - folklorist, writer
- Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
- Peggy Pond Church - writer, poet (RMOA collection inventory)
- Ann Nolan Clark - children's book writer, winner of 1953 Newbery Medal
- Agnes Morley Cleaveland - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
- Erna Fergusson - writer, historian (RMOA collection inventory)
- Alice Corbin Henderson - poet
- Cleofas Jaramillo - writer
- Mabel Dodge Luhan - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
- Margaret Randall - writer, photographer, activist and academic (RMOA collection inventory)
- Leslie Marmon Silko - Laguna Pueblo writer
- Luci Tapahonso - first poet laureate of the Navajo nation (RMOA collection inventory)
- Nancy C. Wood - children's book author (RMOA collection inventory)
Education: edit
- Anita Osuna Carr - first Hispanic woman on the UNM faculty
- Lena C. Clauve - UNM's first Dean of Women
- Patsy and Nadine Córdova - high school teachers fired for not following the prescribed curriculum regarding race (RMOA collection inventory)
- Florence Hawley Ellis - anthropologist (RMOA collection inventory)
- Lauretta Loftus - first African-American teacher in Albuquerque public schools
- Elizabeth P. Simpson - chair of UNM Home Economics Department, 1918-1952
- Marie Pope Wallis - received one of the first two doctoral degrees awarded by UNM (1947) (RMOA collection inventory)
- Clara Belle Williams - first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University (1937)
Politics: edit
- Soledad Chávez Chacon - first female New Mexico Secretary of State; first Hispanic woman elected to statewide office in U.S.
- Louise Holland Coe - first woman member of the New Mexico State Senate (1925) (RMOA collection inventory)
- Diane Denish - first female lieutenant governor of New Mexico
- Alice K. Hoppes - African-American civil rights activist
- Debbie Jaramillo - first female mayor of Santa Fe; led anti-gentrification campaign (RMOA collection inventory)
- Georgia Lee Lusk - first female U.S. Representative from New Mexico
- Susana Martinez - first woman governor of New Mexico
- Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven - politician (RMOA collection inventory)
- Adelina Otero-Warren - educator, suffragist, politician, writer
- Verna Williamson - first woman governor of Isleta Pueblo
Miscellaneous: edit
- Lori Alvord - first board-certified female Diné surgeon.
- Paula Angel - the only woman ever hanged in New Mexico (1861)
- Maria Gertrudis Barceló ("Doña Tules") - owner of a famous nineteenth-century Santa Fe saloon, gambling house, and brothel
- Gloria Castillo - actress
- Grace Thompson Edmister - founder (1932) of the Albuquerque Civic Symphony (later the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra) (RMOA collection inventory)
- Elizabeth Garrett (song writer) - author of New Mexico's state song
- Marian Russell - writer of memoir on Santa Fe Trail / frontier life in New Mexico Territory
- Mary of Jesus of Ágreda - 17th-century mystic
- Julia Staab - Santa Fe ghost
- Katherine Stinson - early aviator (RMOA collection inventory)
- Brigadier General Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti - first Hispanic woman to attain rank of General
- Mary Cabot Wheelwright - anthropologist and founder of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe (RMOA collection inventory)
- Amelia White - Santa Fe socialite, patron of Native American art and the School for Advanced Research
Organizations, Institutions, etc.: edit
- Young Women's Christian Association of Albuquerque (RMOA collection inventory)
- Harvey Girls in New Mexico (see Fred Harvey Company)
- League of Women Voters of New Mexico (RMOA collection inventory)
- New Mexico Women's Political Caucus (RMOA collection inventory)
- Santa Fe Maternal Health Center (RMOA collection inventory)
- Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe
- Woman's Club of Albuquerque (RMOA collection inventory)
- Women's Suffrage Movement in New Mexico
Training to Edit Wikipedia edit
- Biographies
- Intro to Wikipedia Slides
- More: Wikipedia:Featured Articles, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, Help:Getting started, Wikipedia:Starting an article
Selected resources we can draw from edit
- Bullis, Don. New Mexico Historical Biographies (2011). Call number: F795 .B884 2011 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
- Bullis, Don. New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540-1980 (2007). Call number: F795 .B85 2007 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
- Cross, Mark. Encyclopedia of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico (2012). Call number: F804.S23 C76 2012 (CSWR).
- Hewett, Edgar. Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (1976). Call number: N6530.N6 S3 1976 (CSWR).
- History of Hope: The African American Experience in New Mexico (1996). Call number: E185.93 N55 H57 (CSWR).
- Kalloch, Eunice. The First Ladies of New Mexico (1982). Call number: F795 K33 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
- New Mexico Women Legislators since Statehood (1995). Call number: HQ1236.5 U6 N48 1995 (Zimmerman).
- Schaaf, Gregory. Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artists Biographies, c. 1800-Present (2002). Call number: E99.P9 S37 2002 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
- Weigle, Marta. Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images (1993). Call number: HQ1438 N55 WW66 1993 (CSWR).
- West, Beverly. More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women (2001). Call number: CT3260 W47 2001 (CSWR).
- Witt, David. The Taos Artists: A Historical Narrative and Biographical Dictionary (1984). Call number: N6512.5 T34 W58 1984
- Woods, Betty. 101 Men and Women of New Mexico (1976). Call number: F795 W66 (CSWR). Very basic info.
See also New Mexico state and county histories in the Anderson Reading Room.