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Jovita Idar
American journalist, teacher, and activist (1885–1946)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Idar and the second or maternal family name is Vivero.
Jovita Idar Vivero (September 7, 1885 – June 15, 1946) was an American journalist, teacher, political activist, and civil rights worker who championed the cause of Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants.[2][3] Against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, which lasted a decade from 1910 through 1920, she worked for a series of newspapers, using her writing to work towards making a meaningful and effective change. She began her career in journalism at La Crónica, her father's newspaper in Laredo, Texas, her hometown.[4]
While working as a journalist, she became the president of the newly established League of Mexican Women—La Liga Femenil Mexicanista—in October 1911, an organization with a focus on offering free education to Mexican children
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Life Story: Jovita Idar Juárez
Jovita Idar
Helaine Victoria Press, Jovita Idar (1885-1946) [postcard], 1986. W075_029, Feminist Postcard Collection, Archives for Research on Women and Gender. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Jovita Idar was born on September 7, 1885 in Laredo, Texas. She was the second of Nicasio and Jovita Idar’s eight children. Jovita’s father owned and published a Spanish-language newspaper called La Crónica.
Jovita’s parents encouraged her to obtain an education. She attended a Methodist school called the Holding Institute. In 1903, she graduated with a teaching certificate and began teaching in the tiny town of Los Ojuelos, Texas. Jovita was frustrated bygd the poor conditions of the school. She did not feel that teaching was doing enough to change the lives of her students, so she returned to Laredo to work with her father and brothers on La Crónica. As a writer and publisher for the family newspaper, she w
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Primary Sources
Federico Idar and Idar Family Papers, 1879-1938, Federico Idar, Benson Latin American Collection: University of Texas at Austin. https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00199/lac-00199.html.
Clemente N. Idar Papers, 1875-1938 (bulk 1905-1934), Clemente N. Idar, Benson Latin American Collection: University of Texas at Austin. https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00197/lac-00197.html.
Audio Interview with Mr. Aquilino Idar I (Ike) and Guadalupe R. Idar, The Institute of Texan Culture, October 26, 1984. https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p15125coll4/id/1304/
La Crónica (Laredo, Tx.), 1909-???, Library of Congress Archive, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86089580/.
Evolución, (Laredo, Tx.), 1916-???, Library of Congress Archive https://www.loc.gov/item/sn86089570/
El Progreso, (Laredo, Tx.), Library of Congress, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2001240433/
The Rebel (La Rebelde), by Leonor Villegas de Magnón, https://books.google.com/books/about/T