.UTAustin professor Monica Muñoz Martinez believes everyone should have access to truthful accounts of their own history – including the dark parts. That's why USA TODAY's Women of the Year honoree is working to make Texas history publicly accessible.
to protest discrimination against Mexican American students in the 1970s.
“When you learn from people who challenged power, who studied how power functioned and fought for change, that has the ability to empower a new generation,” Martinez said. “It's a powerful thing to give people access to inspiring histories, and so I think some people would rather those lessons of the past not be available.
She would repeat stories about how sad it was that there were so many people that were illiterate. She would share these memories of seeing people signing their names with an X. So, thinking about the women in my life, my family more broadly, and those people who think about education as a civil and human right, that’s something that has inspired me.
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