Ladies all through historical past have been inventing, main, organizing, creating and making the world a greater place regardless of gender injustice. If ladies knew about these inspiring tales which were saved from them, would they be bolder and have extra willingness to persevere?
All through Ladies’s Historical past Month, uncover untold tales of unimaginable ladies—made potential by nonprofit Look What SHE Did! Since incorporating as a in 2015, Look What SHE Did! has produced 150+ three- to four-minute movies of girls telling the tales of the trailblazing ladies who encourage them.
This week: legendary labor activist Dolores Huerta; Mexican American journalist, activist, nurse and educator Jovita Idár; and tennis Grand Slam champion Rosie Casals. (And don’t miss earlier installments on ladies who dissent and Black ladies leaders!)
Dolores Huerta and the Woman Scouts
Legendary labor activist Dolores Huerta overcame her shyness and realized to talk up and to be of service when she was in The Woman Scouts. Huerta tells us how her 10 years within the Woman Scouts with their mission to show sensible abilities, make women self-sufficient, and construct character and confidence formed her life as an outspoken chief and co-founder of the United Farm Employees.
One of many highlights of Dolores’ life was receiving the Medal of Freedom on the identical day Woman Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low was posthumously awarded the identical honor.
Give a hear as Dolores tells us about this enduring group devoted to feminine independence and empowerment.
Jovita Idár
Jovita Idár was a Mexican American journalist, activist, nurse and educator, born in Laredo, Texas, in 1885. Beginning out as a college instructor, she went on to affix her household enterprise as a newspaper journalist, writing on subjects like segregation, racism, poverty, politics, ladies and voting rights.
In the course of the Mexican Revolution, Idár incurred the ire of the U.S. president after criticizing him in print—a transfer that prompted the Texas governor to ship rangers to her door. Idár stood up for herself and her newspaper, citing her First Modification proper to freedom of speech and closed the door.
She was appalled on the therapy of ethnic Mexicans in the US, who have been routinely discriminated in opposition to and subjected to horrific violence. Her life’s work was to pursue justice and construct neighborhood. She served as a nurse within the Mexican Revolution, began a Spanish-language newspaper, fought for ladies’s rights and a lot extra.
As immigrant rights organizer Beatriz Hernández lovingly says, “She was a chingona!”
While you educate a girl, you educate a household.
Beatriz Hernandez
Rosie Casals
“5 foot two (and 1 / 4) of pure tennis genius”—that’s how Olympian Barbra I. Higgins describes tennis Grand Slam champion Rosie Casals.
Born in San Francisco to immigrant mother and father from El Salvador, Rosie Casals had an unlikely begin on the earth of tennis. Taught by her great-uncle and longtime coach on the general public courts of San Francisco, Casals turned a dominant drive on the tennis court docket and started successful championships in her teenagers. Though she was shorter and (by her personal accounts) poorer than her fellow tennis gamers, she blasted previous each barrier to grow to be an absolute tennis legend.
At age 17, she was hand-selected by Billie Jean King to be her doubles companion, and the pair went on to win 5 subsequent Grand Slam Championships. She received 12 Grand Slam tournaments, 112 doubles championships, and was as soon as ranked the #3 tennis participant within the U.S.
Watch as Olympic fencer Barbra I. Higgins recaps Rosie Casals’ gorgeous profession, which impressed her and numerous different Latina athletes all over the world.
Pure. Tennis. Genius.
Barbra I. Higgins
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