Womansight: News for North Texas Women, Volume 2, Number 1, June 1981 Page: 5
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WOMEN'S HISTORY
“We Survive” “We Serve” “We Act” “We Work” “We Build”
Aided by an initial grant from the Texas
Committee for the Humanities, the women began
their search by conducting a massive survey of
4,000 Texas museums, libraries, educational
institutions and private collections. Other major
funding came from Bette Clair McMurray Foun-
dation and The Moody Foundation; and countless
women volunteered their time to help the project
staff dig deeper into Texas history.
Soon, Winegarten and other researchers were
criss-crossing the state, searching through attics
and family histories, looking for lost women.
After three years of research and fundraising,
the project had uncovered some 500 women
who had made significant contributions to their
communities and to the state.
Because of space limitations, the exhibit
does not include all of the forgotten women the
project discovered. But that does not lessen
the impact of the exhibit. Divided into nine
thematic sections, the sometimes poignant,
sometimes humorous displays not only tell
the stories of individual women, but also show
the collective spirit and effort of many Texas
women.
When women organized the Texas Federation
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Dr. Daisy Emery Allen (third from right) was one of the first two women to graduate from medical
school in Texas in 1897. She practiced in the Fort Worth area for almost fifty years.
Emma Tenayuca led 12,000 San Antonio pecan shelters out on strike in 1938for reforms in working
conditions and pay scales. Most of the workers were Mexican-American women who sorted pecans
in hot, dusty sheds with poor lighting and virtually no ventilation. For working 54 hours a week, the
shelters earned less than $3.
Exhibit Itinerary
May through August 1981: San Antonio, Insti-
tute of Texan Cultures.
October through December 1981: Dallas, Hall
of State, Fair Park.
January through May 1982: Austin, Lyndon B.
Johnson Library Museum.
Summer 1982: Canyon, Panhandle-Plains Histori-
cal Museum.
Fall 1982: Houston, (location unannounced).
As the exhibit moves from city to city, displays
will change. Some material is on temporary loan
from other sources and must be returned. Each
city will add local material to the exhibit.
Conover Hunt-Jones, curator of the Dallas His-
torical Society, estimates that the exhibit will
increase in size about 40 percent with the addi-
tion of local material when the exhibit moves to
Dallas.
WOMANSIGHT
DISTRIBUTORS
DALLAS: Century Books; Paperbacks Plus;
House of Books; Markner's Books; SMU
Bookstore; UTD Bookstore.
AUSTIN: Bookwomen.
SAN ANTONIO: Las Mujeres Women's
Bookstore.
WOMANSIGHT JUNE 1981
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