Midtown in Sacramento in Sacramento County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal)
Jovita Idár
19th Amendment Outdoor Museum
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 20, 2021
1. Jovita Idár Marker
Inscription.
Jovita Idár. 19th Amendment Outdoor Museum. As a teacher, writer, editor, and activist, Idár preserved Mexican culture in South Texas and encouraged women to pursue an education and push for equal rights. 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 the education of Mexican children, in Laredo to offer free education to Mexican children. In 1914, when she returned from her volunteer nursing work at the border, she began writing for El Progreso. An editorial published in El Progreso that criticized President Woodrow Wilson's order to dispatch U.S military troops to the Mexico-U.S. border had offended the Texas Rangers. The Rangers attempted to close El Progreso, but Idar blocked the entrance to the newspaper's office. When she was not at the newspaper's office one day, the Rangers returned to ransack it and to destroy the printing presses, effectively shutting down the newspaper.
As a teacher, writer, editor, and activist, Idár preserved Mexican culture in South Texas
and encouraged women to pursue an education and push for equal rights. 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 the education of Mexican children, in Laredo to offer free education to
Mexican children. In 1914, when she returned from her volunteer nursing work at
the border, she began writing for El Progreso. An editorial published in El Progreso that
criticized President Woodrow Wilson's order to dispatch U.S military troops to the
Mexico-U.S. border had offended the Texas Rangers. The Rangers attempted to close El
Progreso, but Idar blocked the entrance to the newspaper's office. When she was not at
the newspaper's office one day, the Rangers returned to ransack it and to destroy the
printing presses, effectively shutting down the newspaper.
is in Sacramento, California, in Sacramento County. It is in Midtown. Marker is at the intersection of K Street and 19th Street on K Street. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1900 K Street, Sacramento CA 95811, United States of America. Touch for directions.
More about this marker. This is one of nineteen markers that comprise the 19th Amendment Outdoor museum, erected in 2020 as part of the "I Vote" project, honoring suffragettes and their work.
Also see . . . 1. Jovita Idár (National Women's History Museum). "As a Mexican-American journalist, activist, and suffragist, Jovita Idár often faced dangerous situations. However, she never backed down from a challenge. She single-handedly protected her newspaper headquarters when the Texas Rangers came to shut it down, and crossed the border to serve as a nurse during the Mexican Revolution. Idár
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 20, 2021
2. Jovita Idár Marker - wide view
bravely fought the injustices in her time." (Submitted on April 22, 2021.)
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 22, 2021, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 211 times since then and 24 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on April 22, 2021, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
