As Jovita Idár, Alicia Dickerson Montemayor was a Latina
from Laredo, Texas. She was born in 1902 and she became an American civil
rights activist.
Montemayor studied law at the university. In 1936, she was
invited by Esther Machuca to join the LULAC (League of United American
Citizens), and she became the first woman elected in this organization. By 1940
she was the associate editor of the organization’s newspaper, the director of
Junior LULAC. She had to lead the voice of women at the national level, so she
propmoted the creation of more ladies council, but also she wrote articles in
which she denounced the male superiority and pushed for a more active role for
women. Finally, in 1940 she decided to leave the LULAC.
After that, she became a school registrar and she retired of
it in 1972. Then, she established herself as a folk artist and started
painting. Her art has become very famous.
She finally died in 1989.
Why was she so important? Because she showed how to be a
wife, a mother, a businesswoman, a middle-class American woman, and at the same
time, an independent radical feminist and a political activist. She could do
everything at the same time, and her example can still make us be sure that we
can also do it if we want.
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