CSN History Club

08/01/2017

09/02/2016

05/15/2016

From the ancient Egyptians to the infamous Habsburgs, these royal families were eventually pushed out of power because of their rampant inbreeding.

02/20/2016

Jovita Idár used her writings to try and make a difference in the lives of Mexican Americans. She was born in 1885 in Laredo, Texas. Idár attended Holding Institute and in 1903 earned a teaching certificate. She felt that she could not help her students due to a lack of resources. So she quit teaching and started writing for La Crónica, a local newspaper. The paper supported reforms to prevent discrimination towards Mexican Americans. During the 1910 Mexican Revolution Idár went to Mexico to work as a nurse. In 1911, along with her family, Idár helped to organize The First Mexican Congress which led to the creation of the League of Mexican Women. Idár was a co-founder of the organization and became the first president. She then returned to the US to work for El Progresso and then to run La Crónica. In 1917, Idár moved to San Antonio, Texas and became editor of El Heraldo Christiano. She also organized El Club Democrata within the Democratic Party. This organization helped to empower the Mexican American community within the party. (Photo Credit: Institute of Texan Cultures)

02/12/2016

The Women's Alliance, along with CSN, is putting on some fantastic events during the month of March, which is Women's History Month.

02/09/2016

Maya Angelou was an internationally renowned poet, dancer, singer, and civil rights activist. Born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri Angelou grew up in St. Louis and in Arkansas. Angelou won a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School, but she soon dropped out to be one of the first African American woman to work as a cable car conductor. Angelou did finish high school and had her son only a few weeks after graduating. In the 1950s she joined the Harlem Writer's Guild and began working on her novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," which was published in 1970. She would go on to write 35 more books. Angelou has also won three Grammy Awards, served on two presidential committees, and been awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Photo Credit: Poetry Foundation)

02/07/2016

to author Laura Ingalls Wilder, born in 1867. Wilder turned her life, growing up in the 1870s through the 1890s, into nine novels. The books follow the Ingalls family as it moves from Wisconsin to Kansas to Minnesota to South Dakota and finally to Missouri. Her family were true pioneers of the time and faced many obstacles from blizzards to illness. At age 15, Wilder became a school teacher in rural South Dakota. She married Almanzo Wilder in 1885 and three years later they moved to Mansfield, Missouri. Wilder began writing her books in her sixties, publishing the first in 1932.

02/04/2016

to civil rights activist Rosa Parks, born in 1913. It was in 1955 that she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. At the time, Parks was an active member of Montgomery’s NAACP. She was arrested and convicted for her actions. This refusal coincided with the start of a boycott of the Montgomery bus system by African Americans. At the time African Americans accounted for 75 percent of riders. The Women’s Political Council, an organization of black women active in anti-segregation activities and politics, provided the hands, feet, and voice of the Montgomery bus boycott. Parks was found guilty of breaking a city law and fined $14. Her lawyer challenged the ruling. While Parks’ case was in the state appeals court another case, Browder v. Gayle, was decided. In that case, the U.S. District Court ruled that public bus segregation based on race was unconstitutional. This ruling was upheld on November 13, 1956 by the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo Credit: Library of Congress)

02/04/2016

..like a BOSS

02/04/2016

Court grants Arctic village rights over hunting and fishing after lawyers for state were accused of ‘rhetoric of race biology’

02/04/2016

In the early 1700s, the term cowboy literally meant a boy who tended to cows. By the 1850s however, the term cowboy came to mean more what we think of: a blue jeans, hat, & spurs wearin’, horse ridin’, North American cattle handler. How could we forget Cowboys after recently highlighting Native Amer…