Gregoria Ortega: Difference between revisions
m Adding Category:Year of birth missing (living people) using Cat-a-lot |
Arianwen88 (talk | contribs) #suggestededit-add-desc 1.0 Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit |
||
| (6 intermediate revisions by 6 users not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Short description|Mexican American activist and religious sister}} |
|||
'''Gregoria Ortega''' is a [[Mexican Americans|Mexican American]] activist and [[Religious sisters|religious sister]]. She is best known for her support of students in an [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]] school walkout and her co-creation of the religious organization for [[Hispanic]] sisters and lay women in the [[Catholic Church]], [[Las Hermanas (organization)|Las Hermanas]]. She continues work as an activist today. |
'''Gregoria Ortega''' is a [[Mexican Americans|Mexican American]] activist and [[Religious sisters|religious sister]]. She is best known for her support of students in an [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]] school walkout and her co-creation of the religious organization for [[Hispanic]] sisters and lay women in the [[Catholic Church]], [[Las Hermanas (organization)|Las Hermanas]]. She continues work as an activist today. |
||
| Line 8: | Line 9: | ||
Ortega also helped support the students throughout the lawsuit which the students and their families brought against the Abilene School Board.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund|Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund]] (MALDEF) was involved with the lawsuit which was filed in December of 1969.{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=50}} MALDEF counsel supported the students' rights to free speech and assembly.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13849549/the_corpus_christi_callertimes/|title=Mexican-American Supported|last=Cardenas|first=Leo|date=1969-05-03|work=The Corpus Christi Caller-Times|access-date=2017-09-18|pages=7|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |
Ortega also helped support the students throughout the lawsuit which the students and their families brought against the Abilene School Board.<ref name=":0" /> The [[Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund|Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund]] (MALDEF) was involved with the lawsuit which was filed in December of 1969.{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=50}} MALDEF counsel supported the students' rights to free speech and assembly.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13849549/the_corpus_christi_callertimes/|title=Mexican-American Supported|last=Cardenas|first=Leo|date=1969-05-03|work=The Corpus Christi Caller-Times|access-date=2017-09-18|pages=7|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |
||
Without support from her superiors, alone, "she faced down police officers, judges, school principals and school boards."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uscatholic.org/church/2010/06/journey-center-church|title=Journey to the center of the church|last=Sandoval|first=Moises|date=March 2010|website=[[U.S. Catholic]]|language=en|access-date=2017-09-18}}</ref> Ortega's life was threatened for her involvement.{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=50}} Because of her involvement, she was expelled from the diocese.<ref name=":0" /> |
Without support from her superiors, alone, "she faced down police officers, judges, school principals and school boards."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uscatholic.org/church/2010/06/journey-center-church|title=Journey to the center of the church|last=Sandoval|first=Moises|date=March 2010|website=[[Claretians#Publications|U.S. Catholic]]|language=en|access-date=2017-09-18}}</ref> Ortega's life was threatened for her involvement.{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=50}} Because of her involvement, she was expelled from the diocese.<ref name=":0" /> |
||
In 1970, she helped form a [[Chicano]] group to deal with issues facing Mexican Americans in the public schools in [[Rotan, Texas|Rotan]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13843826/abilene_reporternews/|title=Chicano Group Formed in Rotan|date=1970-03-24|work=Abilene Reporter-News|access-date=2017-09-18|pages=39|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |
In 1970, she helped form a [[Chicano]] group to deal with issues facing Mexican Americans in the public schools in [[Rotan, Texas|Rotan]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13843826/abilene_reporternews/|title=Chicano Group Formed in Rotan|date=1970-03-24|work=Abilene Reporter-News|access-date=2017-09-18|pages=39|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> |
||
| Line 14: | Line 15: | ||
Ortega met [[Gloria Gallardo]] through a friend, Father Edmundo Rodriguez, and the two of them worked together to form [[Las Hermanas (organization)|Las Hermanas]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" /> When Gallardo showed interest in creating a group for Spanish-speaking sisters and invited Ortega to live with her, Ortega obtained travel funds from Victoryknoll's mother superior and bought a one-way ticket to [[Houston]].{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=53}} Gallardo and Ortega formed Las Hermanas by finding and inviting [[Mexican Americans|Mexican-American]] women to meet in Houston in April 1971.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ixl03|title=Las Hermanas|last=Flores|first=María Eva|date=2010-06-15|website=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|language=en|access-date=2017-09-15}}</ref> The group eventually grew to have around 900 sisters who were members, and met annually.<ref name=":0" /> |
Ortega met [[Gloria Gallardo]] through a friend, Father Edmundo Rodriguez, and the two of them worked together to form [[Las Hermanas (organization)|Las Hermanas]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" /> When Gallardo showed interest in creating a group for Spanish-speaking sisters and invited Ortega to live with her, Ortega obtained travel funds from Victoryknoll's mother superior and bought a one-way ticket to [[Houston]].{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=53}} Gallardo and Ortega formed Las Hermanas by finding and inviting [[Mexican Americans|Mexican-American]] women to meet in Houston in April 1971.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ixl03|title=Las Hermanas|last=Flores|first=María Eva|date=2010-06-15|website=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|language=en|access-date=2017-09-15}}</ref> The group eventually grew to have around 900 sisters who were members, and met annually.<ref name=":0" /> |
||
In 1973, Ortega and other members of Las Hermanas protested for farmworker's rights in [[Fresno, California|Fresno]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13807431/the_los_angeles_times/|title=Las Hermanas Divide Forces for Meeting|last=Dart|first=John|date=1973-08-11|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-09-17|pages=28|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=83}} Later, Ortega and Sister Carmelita Espinoza were involved in the creation of El Centro Guadalupano, which served Mexican parishioners and was created between 1985 and 1986 in [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://jsri.msu.edu/upload/books/Memory,%20Community,%20and%20Activism.pdf|title=Memory, Community and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest|last1=García|first1=Jerry|last2=García|first2=Gilberto|year=2005|publisher=JSRI Books|isbn=9780870137709 |
In 1973, Ortega and other members of Las Hermanas protested for farmworker's rights in [[Fresno, California|Fresno]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13807431/the_los_angeles_times/|title=Las Hermanas Divide Forces for Meeting|last=Dart|first=John|date=1973-08-11|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=2017-09-17|pages=28|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>{{Sfn|Medina|2004|p=83}} Later, Ortega and Sister Carmelita Espinoza were involved in the creation of El Centro Guadalupano, which served Mexican parishioners and was created between 1985 and 1986 in [[Spokane, Washington|Spokane]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://jsri.msu.edu/upload/books/Memory,%20Community,%20and%20Activism.pdf|title=Memory, Community and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest|last1=García|first1=Jerry|last2=García|first2=Gilberto|year=2005|publisher=JSRI Books|isbn=9780870137709|pages=267|language=en}}</ref> |
||
== References == |
== References == |
||
| Line 30: | Line 31: | ||
[[Category:Date of birth unknown]] |
[[Category:Date of birth unknown]] |
||
[[Category:Living people]] |
[[Category:Living people]] |
||
[[Category: |
[[Category:Activists from El Paso, Texas]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||
[[Category:American people of Mexican descent]] |
[[Category:American people of Mexican descent]] |
||
[[Category:American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns]] |
|||
[[Category:Catholics from Texas]] |
[[Category:Catholics from Texas]] |
||
[[Category:20th-century |
[[Category:20th-century American Roman Catholic nuns]] |
||
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] |
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] |
||
| ⚫ | |||
Latest revision as of 16:48, 21 July 2024
Gregoria Ortega is a Mexican American activist and religious sister. She is best known for her support of students in an Abilene school walkout and her co-creation of the religious organization for Hispanic sisters and lay women in the Catholic Church, Las Hermanas. She continues work as an activist today.
Biography
[edit]Ortega was raised in El Paso, Texas and attended Bowie High School.[1][2] When she was very young, her father impressed on her that being a sister was an important job, saying, "They are women who dedicate their entire lives to the Church and to God."[3] She became a sister at 18 when she joined the Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters, also known as Victorynoll.[2] She was newly professed in 1962.[4] After taking vows, she served in San Angelo and Eagle Pass, Texas.[1] On August 5, 1967, she took perpetual vows and then was assigned to Tulare, California.[1] Ortega also spent time studying Spanish in Guanajuato City.[5]
In 1969, she arrived in Abilene.[5] She started teaching religious education in the highly segregated schools in the diocese of San Angelo.[2] Ortega opposed the "severe physical abuse of Chicano/a students by their teachers.[6] She encouraged her students to learn about peaceful civil rights protests which led to a nine-day walkout which Ortega supported.[2] Around 300 students participated in the walkout.[7]
Ortega also helped support the students throughout the lawsuit which the students and their families brought against the Abilene School Board.[2] The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) was involved with the lawsuit which was filed in December of 1969.[8] MALDEF counsel supported the students' rights to free speech and assembly.[9]
Without support from her superiors, alone, "she faced down police officers, judges, school principals and school boards."[10] Ortega's life was threatened for her involvement.[8] Because of her involvement, she was expelled from the diocese.[2]
In 1970, she helped form a Chicano group to deal with issues facing Mexican Americans in the public schools in Rotan.[11]
Ortega met Gloria Gallardo through a friend, Father Edmundo Rodriguez, and the two of them worked together to form Las Hermanas in 1971.[2] When Gallardo showed interest in creating a group for Spanish-speaking sisters and invited Ortega to live with her, Ortega obtained travel funds from Victoryknoll's mother superior and bought a one-way ticket to Houston.[12] Gallardo and Ortega formed Las Hermanas by finding and inviting Mexican-American women to meet in Houston in April 1971.[13] The group eventually grew to have around 900 sisters who were members, and met annually.[2]
In 1973, Ortega and other members of Las Hermanas protested for farmworker's rights in Fresno.[14][15] Later, Ortega and Sister Carmelita Espinoza were involved in the creation of El Centro Guadalupano, which served Mexican parishioners and was created between 1985 and 1986 in Spokane.[16]
References
[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^ a b c "E.P. Nun Takes Perpetual Vows". El Paso Herald-Post. 1967-07-29. p. 3. Retrieved 2017-09-19 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Medina, Lara (2009). "Ortega, Gregoria". In De La Torre, Miguel A. (ed.). Hispanic American Religious Cultures: A - M. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 413–414. ISBN 9781598841398.
- ^ Medina 2004, p. 47-48.
- ^ "Newly Professed". The Missionary Catechist. 38 (9): 7. October 1962.
- ^ a b Medina 2004, p. 47.
- ^ Medina, Lara (2005). "The Challenges and Consequences of Being Latina, Catholic, and Political". In Espinosa, Gastón; Elizondo, Virgilio P.; Miranda, Jesse (eds.). Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 9780195162288.
- ^ Medina 2004, p. 49.
- ^ a b Medina 2004, p. 50.
- ^ Cardenas, Leo (1969-05-03). "Mexican-American Supported". The Corpus Christi Caller-Times. p. 7. Retrieved 2017-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Sandoval, Moises (March 2010). "Journey to the center of the church". U.S. Catholic. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
- ^ "Chicano Group Formed in Rotan". Abilene Reporter-News. 1970-03-24. p. 39. Retrieved 2017-09-18 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Medina 2004, p. 53.
- ^ Flores, María Eva (2010-06-15). "Las Hermanas". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ Dart, John (1973-08-11). "Las Hermanas Divide Forces for Meeting". The Los Angeles Times. p. 28. Retrieved 2017-09-17 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Medina 2004, p. 83.
- ^ García, Jerry; García, Gilberto (2005). Memory, Community and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest (PDF). JSRI Books. p. 267. ISBN 9780870137709.
Sources
[edit]- Medina, Lara (2004). Las Hermanas: Chicana/Latina Religious-Political Activism in the U.S. Catholic Church. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592134830.
