Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Katie Hnida – First woman to score in an NCAA Division I-A football game on August 30, 2003, as a placekicker for the University of New Mexico, kicking two points against Texas State University. [4] [44] Also the first woman to appear in a bowl game , at the 2002 Las Vegas Bowl against UCLA, during which her extra point attempt was blocked. [4] (
Miriam Amanda " Ma " Ferguson ( née Wallace; June 13, 1875 – June 25, 1961) was an American politician who served two non-consecutive terms as the governor of Texas: from 1925 to 1927, and from 1933 to 1935. She was the first female governor of Texas, and the second woman to be governor of any U.S. state, after Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming.
The Texas Women's Political Caucus was founded by Cotera and other women in 1973. In 1974, she founded the non-profit Chicana Research and Learning Center in Austin, Texas. This information and research center helped to find grant money for research and community projects, with an emphasis on women of color. [13]
Women's suffrage efforts in Texas began in 1868 at the first Texas Constitutional Convention. In both Constitutional Conventions and subsequent legislative sessions, efforts to provide women the right to vote were introduced, only to be defeated. Early Texas suffragists such as Martha Goodwin Tunstall and Mariana Thompson Folsom worked with ...
Victoria E. Bynum received her BA at Chico State University in 1979, and her MA and Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego in 1987. Her Ph.D. thesis was "Unruly women: the relationship between status and behavior among free women of the North Carolina Piedmont, 1840-1865". [2] In 1986, she joined the Department of History at ...
Rockford is the first to start a women's flag football team from the state of Illinois and is one of the first in the entire NCAA to bring this new — but fast-growing — sport to the college ...
Texas Woman's University ( TWU) is a public coeducational university in Denton, Texas, with two health science center-focused campuses in Dallas and Houston. While TWU has been fully co-educational since 1994, it is the largest state-supported university primarily for women in the United States. The university is part of the Texas Woman's ...
In addition to the oral traditions of women involved in armed resistance, a role that mostly lower-class women took up, upper class Moroccan women were heavily involved in the nationalist politics of resisting colonialism. The Istiqlal Party was the primary mobilizing political force in Morocco that rallied against French colonial rule.