Thursday - September 23rd
8th-graders: Littleton High School has tours and information sessions to learn about its programs and opportunities on 5 different Tuesdays this fall. Learn more and sign up on the 8th Grade Visits page of the Littleton High School website.
Sept. 15th-Oct. 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month! On Tuesdays and Thursdays during this time period we will look at the lives of Hispanic Americans that made their mark in American and/or World History. Here is our next Honoree:
Jovita Idár
As the proverb goes, when you educate a woman, you educate a family. Jovita Idár believed that wholeheartedly. While working at her father’s newspaper, La Crónica, she used the platform to speak out against racism and in support of women’s and Mexican-Americans’ rights. After writing an article condemning Woodrow Wilson’s decision to send U.S. troops to the border, the Texas Rangers showed up at her door to shut down the paper. But she refused to let them in, literally putting her body between them and the door, and they left. Although the Rangers eventually succeeded in shutting down the paper, Idár continued to stand up for women and Mexican-Americans her entire life. Idár died in San Antonio in 1946, but she lives on in spirit as one of the powerful and influential Latinas throughout history who have changed the world.
Educator, writer, and Journalist Jovita Idar, a Hispanic American that we honor today for Hispanic Heritage Month.