TODA LA FAMILIA

when her widower’s wife burned a trunk he had saved that contained all of Jovita’s papers. So no biography exists of this early pillar in the movement to gain civil rights for Mexican and American workers and women. However, photographs from 1914 show a tall, dignified young woman who looks perfectly capable of facing down Texas Rangers sent to shutter , a Laredo, Texas, newspaper that had published an editorial by Mexican revolutionary Manuel García Vigil. Vigil condemned President Woodrow Wilson for sending U.S. Army troops to the border during the Mexican Civil War. A employee, Jovita turned away the Rangers, who came back later to destroy the presses and burn