Jovita Idár
She stood down the Texas Rangers and spoke out for the rights of her Mexican American community. Education, Jovita Idár believed, was the key to equality.
Texas
Barbara Jordan
Hers was a life of firsts: The first African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction. The first woman from Texas, and the first African-American woman since 1898, to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. The first African-American woman to serve on the House Judiciary Committee. …