Wikipedia:Meetup/Women of New Mexico

=Women of New Mexico in the 1960s and beyond=

Celebrate American Archives Month in the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections. Explore UNM library collections and help share the stories of women in New Mexico from the 1960s and beyond on Wikipedia. Registration is appreciated, but not required: Click here to register.

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 * Date: October 27th, 2016
 * Time: 1-3 pm
 * Location: University of New Mexico, Zimmerman Library, Room B30

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 * Quercusechinus (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Mlt6 (talk) 22:09, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * HABinNM (talk) 19:50, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

1960s:

 * Alice Bullock - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Dorothy I. Cline - UNM professor (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Linda Durham - hippie and Santa Fe art dealer
 * LaDonna Harris - social activist, politician (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Eunice Kalloch - health and environmental activist (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Agnes Martin - painter
 * Margaret Prince - activist, politician (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Annie Dodge Wauneka - Navajo health and education activist; started Navajo-language radio program (1960) (RMOA collection inventory)

Artists:

 * Mary Greene Blumenschein - Taos artist, illustrator, jewelry designer
 * Dorothy Brett - artist, writer; associate of D. H. Lawrence (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Judy Chicago - feminist artist
 * Laura Gilpin - photographer
 * Anne Windfohr Marion - art patron, philanthropist, founder of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
 * Maria Martinez - artist, potter
 * Nedra Matteucci - Santa Fe art patron
 * Georgia O'Keeffe - painter
 * Cecilia Portal - photographer (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Millicent Rogers - Taos art collector
 * Susan Rothenberg - painter
 * Charlene Teters - Native American activist, artist, educator
 * Pablita Velarde - painter

Writers:

 * Paula Gunn Allen - Laguna Pueblo writer
 * Mary Austin - writer, founder of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Ruth Laughlin Barker - author; book Cabelleros depicts her childhood in Santa Fe
 * Alice Bullock - folklorist, writer
 * Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Gilbert - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Peggy Pond Church - writer, poet (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Ann Nolan Clark - children's book writer, winner of 1953 Newbery Medal
 * Agnes Morley Cleaveland - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Erna Fergusson - writer, historian (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Alice Corbin Henderson - poet
 * Cleofas Jaramillo - writer
 * Mabel Dodge Luhan - writer (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Margaret Randall - writer, photographer, activist and academic (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Leslie Marmon Silko - Laguna Pueblo writer
 * Luci Tapahonso - first poet laureate of the Navajo nation (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Nancy C. Wood - children's book author (RMOA collection inventory)

Education:

 * Anita Osuna Carr - first Hispanic woman on the UNM faculty
 * Lena C. Clauve - UNM's first Dean of Women
 * Patsy and Nadine Córdova - high school teachers fired for not following the prescribed curriculum regarding race (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Florence Hawley Ellis - anthropologist (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Lauretta Loftus - first African-American teacher in Albuquerque public schools
 * Elizabeth P. Simpson - chair of UNM Home Economics Department, 1918-1952
 * Marie Pope Wallis - received one of the first two doctoral degrees awarded by UNM (1947) (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Clara Belle Williams - first African-American graduate of New Mexico State University (1937)

Politics:

 * Soledad Chávez Chacon - first female New Mexico Secretary of State; first Hispanic woman elected to statewide office in U.S.
 * Louise Holland Coe - first woman member of the New Mexico State Senate (1925) (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Diane Denish - first female lieutenant governor of New Mexico
 * Alice K. Hoppes - African-American civil rights activist
 * Debbie Jaramillo - first female mayor of Santa Fe; led anti-gentrification campaign (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Georgia Lee Lusk - first female U.S. Representative from New Mexico
 * Susana Martinez - first woman governor of New Mexico
 * Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven - politician (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Adelina Otero-Warren - educator, suffragist, politician, writer
 * Verna Williamson - first woman governor of Isleta Pueblo

Miscellaneous:

 * Lori Alvord - first board-certified female Diné surgeon.
 * Paula Angel - the only woman ever hanged in New Mexico (1861)
 * Maria Gertrudis Barceló ("Doña Tules") - owner of a famous nineteenth-century Santa Fe saloon, gambling house, and brothel
 * Gloria Castillo - actress
 * Grace Thompson Edmister - founder (1932) of the Albuquerque Civic Symphony (later the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra) (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Elizabeth Garrett (song writer) - author of New Mexico's state song
 * Marian Russell - writer of memoir on Santa Fe Trail / frontier life in New Mexico Territory
 * Mary of Jesus of Ágreda - 17th-century mystic
 * Julia Staab - Santa Fe ghost
 * Katherine Stinson - early aviator (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Brigadier General Carmelita Vigil-Schimmenti - first Hispanic woman to attain rank of General
 * Mary Cabot Wheelwright - anthropologist and founder of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Amelia White - Santa Fe socialite, patron of Native American art and the School for Advanced Research

Organizations, Institutions, etc.:

 * Young Women's Christian Association of Albuquerque (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Harvey Girls in New Mexico (see Fred Harvey Company)
 * League of Women Voters of New Mexico (RMOA collection inventory)
 * New Mexico Women's Political Caucus (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Santa Fe Maternal Health Center (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Sisters of Loretto in Santa Fe
 * Woman's Club of Albuquerque (RMOA collection inventory)
 * Women's Suffrage Movement in New Mexico

Training to Edit Wikipedia

 * Biographies
 * Intro to Wikipedia Slides
 * More: Featured Articles, Policies and guidelines, Help:Getting started, Starting an article

Selected resources we can draw from

 * Bullis, Don. New Mexico Historical Biographies (2011). Call number: F795 .B884 2011 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
 * Bullis, Don. New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540-1980 (2007). Call number: F795 .B85 2007 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
 * Cross, Mark. Encyclopedia of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico (2012). Call number: F804.S23 C76 2012 (CSWR).
 * Hewett, Edgar. Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (1976). Call number: N6530.N6 S3 1976 (CSWR).
 * History of Hope: The African American Experience in New Mexico (1996). Call number: E185.93 N55 H57 (CSWR).
 * Kalloch, Eunice. The First Ladies of New Mexico (1982). Call number: F795 K33 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
 * New Mexico Women Legislators since Statehood (1995). Call number: HQ1236.5 U6 N48 1995 (Zimmerman).
 * Schaaf, Gregory. Southern Pueblo Pottery: 2000 Artists Biographies, c. 1800-Present (2002). Call number: E99.P9 S37 2002 (CSWR and Zimmerman).
 * Weigle, Marta. Women of New Mexico: Depression Era Images (1993). Call number: HQ1438 N55 WW66 1993 (CSWR).
 * West, Beverly. More than Petticoats: Remarkable New Mexico Women (2001). Call number: CT3260 W47 2001 (CSWR).
 * Witt, David. The Taos Artists: A Historical Narrative and Biographical Dictionary (1984). Call number: N6512.5 T34 W58 1984
 * Woods, Betty. 101 Men and Women of New Mexico (1976). Call number: F795 W66 (CSWR). Very basic info.

See also New Mexico state and county histories in the Anderson Reading Room.

New articles

 * Louise Holland Coe
 * Elizabeth Garrett (song writer)