Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa: (September 26, 1942 – May 15, 2004) was a scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her most well-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, on her life growing up on the Mexican-Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and cultural marginalization into her work.
** The archives of the Benson Library have a whole collection of Gloria Anzaldúa's work
Jesse Daniel Ames: Jessie Daniel Ames was a Texas suffragist and civil-rights activist who fought against lynching in the South. Ames founded the Texas League of Women Voters in 1919 and was its first president. She believed that it was the responsibility of women's organizations to try and solve racial problems. In 1924 Ames became the director of the Texas branch of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), and she was promoted to the position of director of the CIC Women's Committee at the organization's headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. In 1930 Ames founded the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL).
José Angel Gutiérrez: is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party, a Mexican-American third party movement that supported candidates for elective office in Texas, California, and other areas of the Southwestern and Midwestern United States.
Wendy Kopp: Wendy Sue Kopp is the Founder and Chair of the Board of Teach For America, a national teaching corps
Alicia Dickerson Montemayor: was a Latina activist from Laredo, Texas, the first woman elected to a national office not specifically designated for a woman, having served as vice president general of the interest group, the League of United Latin American Citizens. She was also the first woman to serve as associate editor of the LULAC newspaper and the first to write a charter to fund a LULAC youth group. Montemayor urged the inclusion of girls and women into Latin American activism and also promoted the interests of middle-class Mexican-Americans.
Ada Dement: Ada Dement served as chair of the Peace and Function Committee for the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs and as a member of the Board of Control. She also worked as senior Texas state supervisor for girls and on the general committee for the Texas Commission on Interracial Cooperation. In 1930 Dement was elected president of the Texas Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (TACWC), later called the Texas Association of Women’s Clubs. Under her leadership, the organization started a scholarship fund, promoted a training school for delinquent black girls, and helped develop a hospital for black tuberculosis patients. Furthermore, the TACWC doubled the size of its membership and even worked closely with the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. In 1941 Dement became the first Texan elected to serve as president of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs (NACWC), a role she maintained until her death in 1945. While there, she was instrumental in transferring the Frederick Douglas home, located in Washington, D.C., into the care of the NACWC.
Jovita Idar: journalist, political activist and civil rights worker. Idar strove to advance the civil rights of Mexican-Americans. Jovita wrote articles under a pseudonym, exposing the poor living conditions of Mexican American workers and supported the Mexican Revolution which started in 1910
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