by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
In the mid-1970s, when many young Chicano teenagers were protesting, attending college, or working for family businesses, a flowering music scene was blossoming in the central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Starting in the 1950s, a blend of music from Mexico in the...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
In 1922, two years after women gained the right to vote, Soledad Chavez de Chacon was elected Secretary of State, the first Hispanic woman to hold statewide office in New Mexico and the country. She descended from a family of territorial governors and office holders,...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Myra Ellen Jenkins was born on September 26, 1916, in Elizabeth, Colorado, to Lewis Harlan Jenkins and Minnie (Ackroyd) Jenkins. Growing up in the Black Forest region, southeast of Denver and northeast of Colorado Springs, she was part of a family of homesteaders. She...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
Since New Mexico became a state part of the United States in 1912, more than 15,000 women in New Mexico have volunteered to serve in the military. Tamara Archuleta, Christel Chávez, and Lori Piestewa are the only known women of the New Mexico region who have lost...
by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023
There is no greater an act of self-sacrifice and bravery than giving up your own life to save others. This is what Sarah J. “Sally” Rooke did around midnight on August 27, 1908, in the northeastern New Mexican town of Folsom. In 1905, Sally Rooke moved to Folsom after...
