Women of New Mexico in the 1960s and beyond

Women of New Mexico in the 1960s and beyond
	UNM Zimmerman Library
When and Where
Time	1pm to 3pm
Address	Zimmerman Library, Room B30
City, State	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Date	October 27th, 2016

Celebrate American Archives Month in the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections. Explore UNM library collections and help share the stories of women in New Mexico from the 1960s and beyond on Wikipedia. Registration is appreciated, but not required: Click here to register.

Event Information

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

1960s:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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.:

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

Selected resources we can draw from

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.

Wikipedia:Meetup/Women of New Mexico