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Placida Garcia Smith
Plácida García Smith (August 7, 1896 – July 17, 1981) was an American educator, non-profit director, and community organizer. She was the director of the Friendly House in Phoenix, Arizona, where she helped immigrants and Mexican Americans, especially young women. Early life and education Plácida Elvira García was born on August 7, 1896, in Conejos, Colorado. Her paternal grandfather had founded Conejos and her father had worked as a sheriff and probate. Her mother's family, the Espinosas, had been a politically prominent family in New Mexico. As a child, García observed her father's legal work and was impacted by socio-economic disparities. After graduating as valedictorian from Loretto Academy in Pueblo, Colorado, and earning her certification to teach second grade, García began teaching. During the summers, she studied at Greeley State Teachers College and the University of Mexico. She quickly rose through the school, becoming principal by 1918. In 1921, she became th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conejos, Colorado
Conejos ( Spanish for "rabbits") is an unincorporated town, a post office, a census-designated place (CDP), and the county seat of Conejos County, Colorado, United States. The Conejos post office has the ZIP Code 81129. At the United States Census 2020, the population of the Conejos CDP was 46. Conejos is the only unincorporated county seat in the State of Colorado. History Conejos is a historic Hispanic settlement. Both the settlement and the county were initially named "Guadalupe". A major historical and architectural feature of Conejos is the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, founded in 1858. The church was the first Roman Catholic parish in modern-day Colorado and was constructed by Spanish colonists from New Mexico. The Conejos post office has been in operation since 1862. Geography Conejos is located in southeastern Conejos County in the San Luis Valley. It is bordered to the south by the town of Antonito. U.S. Route 285 forms the eastern edge of the commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Garcia (Arizona)
LeMaría García (1898-?) was a journalist and community organizer in the Mexican American community in Phoenix, Arizona. Early life García was born in Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, Mexico, where she studied education at the Autonomous University of Mexico State and taught in Juarez, Mexico, Ciudad Juarez. In the early 1930s, she moved to Yuma, Arizona to teach, where she met her future husband, Albert Garcia. Albert was the secretary for the Latin American Club of Arizona, which María soon joined. When Albert earned his law degree in 1937, the couple moved to Phoenix. Activism and journalism In 1940, García, with Placida Garcia Smith, Placida García Smith, founded Phoenix's first chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Council #110. She created the council's Discrimination Committee, and led an effort to challenge a Tempe Beach pool that had denied entrance to two Mexican American pilots. Ultimately, the court decided the segregation was unconstitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
