Celebrating Women's Equality Day 2026
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Women's Equality Day: Honoring Hispanic/Latina Contributions to Suffrage
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM | Location TBA
Join us as we commemorate the certification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 and honor the long, hard-fought battle for women's right to vote. This landmark achievement changed the course of American democracy — and we're marking it with an afternoon of celebration and reflection.
We'll screen a special Zoom recording of remarks from Dr. Cynthia E. Orozco, League of Women Voters member and LULAC's National Historian, speaking on the vital contributions of Hispanic and Latina women to the suffrage movement — and the work that continues today.
Dr. Orozco earned her BA from the University of Texas at Austin and her MA and PhD from UCLA, and taught at UT San Antonio, the University of New Mexico, and Eastern New Mexico University–Ruidoso, where she is now Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities. She is the author of several landmark works on Mexican American civil rights history, including biographies of LULAC founder Alonso S. Perales and activist Adela Sloss-Vento, and has contributed more than 80 entries to the Handbook of Texas.
In 2025, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) named her its National Historian in recognition of her scholarship on the organization's history.
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