- Willie Dee Bowles
Willie Dee Worley Bowles (
February 4 ,1912 —November 22 ,2000 ) was an American educator and historian. Her 1939 thesis, "The History of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas", was one of the first attempts to catalogue the history of thewomen's suffrage movement in theUnited States .Bowles was born Willie Dee Worley in Piedmont,
Alabama in 1912, and attended the schools ofAuburn, Alabama andRock Hill, South Carolina before beginning her studies at Sam Houston State Teachers' College inHuntsville, Texas in 1926. After graduating from Sam Houston State in 1931, Bowles taught English and Spanish at Alief High School nearHouston, Texas until 1934, and then, from 1934 through 1939, taught History atHarlingen High School inHarlingen, Texas . Also in 1934, Bowles entered graduate school at theUniversity of Texas at Austin , where she graduated in 1939 with amasters degree in history. Bowles' thesis, "The History of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas", was the first historical study of its topic, and one of the first histories of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. [Alicia A. Garza, " [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/fbogj.html BOWLES, WILLIE DEE] ", "Handbook of Texas Online", retrieved November 12, 2007.]Bowles taught for much of the rest of her life in the schools of
San Marcos, Texas , where her husband, Dr. D. Richard Bowles, was a longtime professor of education and director of elementary student training atSouthwest Texas State University . In 1987, Bowles was inducted into the San Marcos Women's Hall of Fame. [City of San Marcos, Texas, " [http://www.ci.san-marcos.tx.us/departments/parks/Honorees.html Hall of Fame Honorees] ", retrieved November 12, 2007.]References
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